Coming soon to YOUR city -- a summer of rage!

There are three big news stories this weekend, all related. Just the facts, first, and I'll tie them all together at the end.

Item: Yesterday, in a predominantly black neighbourhood of Buffalo NY, an 18-year-old gunman wearing tactical gear opened fire in a busy supermarket, killing ten people (at last count) and wounding three others. The shooter, now in police custody, was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin NY, a town some 200 miles SE of Buffalo. 

Mr Gendron is white, and was immediately labelled as a "white supremacist" by New York's Democratic Governor Kathy Hochula, who hates white supremacists. "It strikes us in our very hearts to know that there's such evil that lurks out there," she said. "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well."

Item: In Milwaukee WI, 21 people were injured in three separate shootings, in an entertainment district where 1000s had been watching the Bucks lose to the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals.

Three people were shot near the Deer District outside Fiserv Forum toward the end of Friday night's game, sending fans fleeing through the streets. One person was injured in a second shooting before a third shooting less than a mile from the arena left 17 people with non-life-threatening injuries.

A man and a 16-year-old girl who were injured in the first shooting were transported to a local hospital Friday night, while a third person drove there, according to the Milwaukee Fire Department. All three have non-life-threatening injuries. 

Police said a 19-year-old man was in custody from the first shooting and that charges were pending a review by the Milwaukee County district attorney's office. No arrest has been made in the second shooting. Ten people were taken into custody and nine firearms were recovered from the third shooting, according to police, which described the incident as an exchange of gunfire between two groups of people.

Nothing has been said about the race of anyone involved in these incidents -- not the victims, not the suspects, not the arrested man, and certainly not the "groups of people". Can the police and politicians of Democrat-controled Milwaukee not say "gangs" or "black"?

Item: While other events were unfolding in Buffalo and Milwaukee, 1000s of people -- mostly angry white women, to judge by the photos and video clips -- took part in "mostly peaceful protests" across the Excited States of America to decry the Supreme Court's expected reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Organizers -- these were not spontaneous events -- said there were more than 380 protests in cities from coast to coast, including Democrat-controlled Washington DC, New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Those cities, especially Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago, are not known as havens of peace and tranquility, but signalling to "organizers" (read: Rise Up, Antifa, BLM et al.) that they can take to the streets without fear of prosecution is "not helpful".

Earlier last week, Mayor Lightfoot had to defend herself against backlash after she tweeted that the draft SCOTUS opinion in Hobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was a "call to arms" [not "firearms", shurely! Ed.] for those in the LGBTQ2S+ etc etc community. 

Conservative figures, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, (R-CO) and Fox News' Laura Ingraham, accused Ms Lightfoot of seeking to incite violence when she tweeted on Monday, "To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community -- the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms." Ms Boebert told Sean Hannity on Wednesday, "If anyone in America is an insurrectionist, it's little Lori."

Last Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote to the Justice Department. Citing Ms Lightfoot's tweet, condemned a coordinated campaign of intimidation and threats to the SCOTUS justices. "The comments made by the president's staff and members of the Democratic Party threaten the safety of members of the Court," he said.

Indeed. Not to mention the safety and security of people who live in cities such as Buffalo, Milwaukee, and Chicago, and just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when "mostly peaceful protests" turn violent, or when mindless or insane violence breaks out on its own. If you live in a big American city -- a Democrat-controlled city -- take care.

AFTERTHOUGHT, added at 1810 - Apparently I didn't make clear the connection between the first item (the Buffalo mass murder) and my prediction of a summer of rage. I have been told [already! Ed.] that I'm making the same point as crazy Nancy Pelosi and the rest, that "white supremacists" are responsible for all the rage and hatred afflicting America today. Not so.  

What I predict... and it's started already... is that the SJWs and other usual suspects will be baying for the blood of the possibly demented kid who shot up the Tops supermarket, and for all whites guilty of being white. Signs reading "No justice, no peace!" have already appeared, the cries for vengeance are loud in the land. Except for Milwaukee of course because, well, see the second item. 

If I were white and had the misfortune to be living or doing business in Conklin NY, or even Buffalo, I'd be boarding up the windows and starving the hounds. The sound you hear tomorrow and in the coming weeks will be that of the BLM shithammer striking!

UPDATED: Feds mull "civil rights" charges after Rittenhouse acquittal

A Wisconsin jury has acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges arising from the killing of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz during a "mostly peaceful protest" in Kenosha WI in August of 2020. 

The "protests" erupted after a white police officer shot a black man. The now-customary riots, vandalism and looting ensured, prompting an online call for armed patriots to come to the city to protect lives and property. 

Mr Rittenhouse, who answered the call, is white. The three people he shot were/are also white. Nevertheless, this being America, you can expect further rioting, vandalism, looting ["reparations shopping", shurely. Ed.] and general mayhem. not just in Kenosha but across the country, in the name of "justice" for those who were shot. Businesses are already boarding up their windows. 

I'm happy for Mr Rittenhouse, but caution him and his defence team to keep their guard up. The federal Department of Justice has yet to weigh in, so expect charges under the Civil Rights Act to be filed very shortly. Lifetime pct .991.

UPDATE ADDED 20/11/21: As Walt predicted (lifetime pct .992), Democrats are now calling  on the Brandon Department of Justice for Some to consider federal charges against Kyle Rittenhouse. Within hours of the announcement of the not guilty verdict, Rep. (((Jerry Nadler))) (D-NY), who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted his call for a federal review.

Many of the "progressive activists" (read: loonie Social Justice Whiners), who so nonchalantly and callously dismiss the damage done to people and property by BLM and Antifa, support Mr Nadler’s call for a federal investigation. 

Why? Because Democrats are so accustomed to things going their way that they can't handle it when they lose. Legal Insurrection warns Mr Nadler to step away from his emotions over the verdict, and think about the repercussions of pushing the narrative that Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist who violated the civil rights of his attackers. 

The Democrats, from Sleepy Joe on down, and their propagandists in the controlled media failed to make that case. And a basic lesson of military strategy is that you shouldn't reinforce failure!

VIDEOS: Biden and Bush warn: Real enemies aren't Muslims, but "extremists at home"

Ed. here. The anniversary of 9/11 saw lots of speeches, including those made by ex-President Dubya, who started America's meddling in the Muslim civil war, and the incumbent, who ended it (or so we are to believe). 

Although Mr Biden is a Dumbocrat, and Mr Bush a RINO [Is he still registered as a Republican? Ed.], they found a common theme. The dastardly attack, perpetrated by devout followers of the Prophet, abetted by Saudi citizens residing in the US of A, shouldn't be blamed on Islamic extremists or Muslims generally. On no. They are all followers of the Religion of Peace, dontcha know.

Here's a clip, excerpted (but not manipulated) from the official video released by the White House today. Listen to this, Americans, so you'll know where your freely and fairly elected President stands.

   

Former President Bushleague doesn't speak directly of Islamophobia or of the Religion of Peace. Instead, he warns us against "violent extremists at home", who (he says) are different from "violent extremists abroad" -- not  really the same as the crazed Muslims who took those jets for a one-way ride with a sudden stop. 

 

What sort of "extremists at home" do you suppose Dubya has in mind? Antifa? BLM? Surely not the peaceful protesters who occupied the Capitol on January 6th, one of whom was killed by police -- the only one who died in an event which the Democraps and lickspittle media keep telling us was worse than 9/11.

Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Bush made his views clear. He reaffirmed his belief that Americans should continue to welcome refugees and immigrants into the United States. "At a time when nativism could have stirred hatred and violence against people perceived as outsiders, I saw Americans reaffirm their welcome to immigrants and refugees. that is the nation I know," is what he said.

But let's be charitable to the two presidents. They are both in their seventies, and obviously cognitively challenged. One is suffereing from senile dementia. The other is an imbecile. If you find anything wrong with what these two men are saying, don't complain to us. You know what to do, next time you get the chance.

VIDEO: Fed-up teacher slams Loudon VA school board's insane racism

Meet Lilit Vanetsyan, a self-described "educator" [Is "teacher" too simple a word for "educators"? Ed.] and reporter with Right Side Broadcasting Network. In only one minute, Ms Vanetsyan exposed the insanity of Marxist critical race theory, as embraced by the Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools.

This "extreme wokeness" (or "woke extremism?") teaches that hidden racism permeates American society, and encourages students to deconstruct the world around them to find hidden racism. Here's what Ms Vanetsyan thinks of it.

 

Critical race theory is the ideology which fueled the violent Black Lives Matter and antifa riots last summer. "Woke" school districts across the Excited States of America have rushed to get on the reverse racism bandwagon, but few more so than Loudoun County Public Schools, in the suburbs of Virginia, northwest of Washington DC.

For the sake of combatting perceived "systemic racism", the LCPS adopted curriculum from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and removed the still-popular Dr. Seuss books from its library shelves. See "Walt wishes Dr Seuss a Belated Happy Birthday" and "'The Cat in the Hat' tops Amazon's US best-seller list", and , both WWW 4/3/21.

The LCPS plan also includes the obligatory "anti-racism training' (read" brainwashing) for teachers. Walt has heard that one of the "modules" is entitled "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty", with the text being a book of the same name by Garry Trudeau.  [Ed., you'd better check this.] 

It is also rumoured that "educators" will be required to instruct their impressionable pupils on how to draft and circulate petitions calling for the renaming of the Loudoun County seat, which happens to be, errr... Leesburg... named after... you know who.

Don't be misled by the self-proclaimed good intentions of the SJWs. In the name of promoting "sensitivity" and "tolerance", critical race theory promotes racism and division. 

It's not just whites who are targetted. In a statement released on 23 February, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York declared, "Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud. One way or another, CRT wants to get rid of ​too many Asians​ in good schools. Asians are over-represented.​ CRT is today’s Chinese Exclusion Act. CRT is the real ​hate crime​ against Asians....

"CRT appears in our workplaces under the cover of ​implicit bias/sensitivity​ ​training​. It infiltrates our schools pretending to be ​culturally/ethnically responsive​ ​pedagogy​, with curricula such as the New York Times' ​1619 Project​ and Seattle’s ​ethnomathematics​. From its very roots, CRT is racist, repressive, discriminatory, and divisive."

Are ya ready for an all-American Reichstag fire?

"History repeats itself!" is bunk. It's an aphorism loosely based on an aphorism commonly attributed to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

Strictly speaking, history cannot repeat itself exactly, because there can never be an exactly similar situation involving exactly the same people in exactly the same place. And even if that could be so, you can't predict that the same people would act/react in exactly the same way a second time. Human beings are, if nothing else, unpredictable. 

The most we can say, then, is that certain events occurring now, or which may occur in the future, put us in mind of events that have occurred before, and prompt us to speculate that the outcomes might be similar. That's all. 

So it is with the dire warnings with which the FBI, the Dumbocrats and the lickspittle controlled media are assaulting us every bloody minute, regarding the possibility of armed protests on the occasion of Sleepy Joe Biden's almost-secret inauguration on January 20th. 

White nationalists, Trump supporters and neo-Nazis [they tell us] are preparing for bloody insurrection, not just in Washington DC but in all 50 state capitals! 

 Here's a sample of the steaming load of bullshit being shovelled out by the likes of Business Insider: "Biden's inauguration rehearsal has been postponed because of security threats, report says". And how about this, from the TDS sufferers at Yahoo!: "'Cowboys for Trump' leader plans to bring guns to DC on the day of Biden's inauguration".

Scary, isn't it? Imagine that guy -- Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner and founder of Cowboys for Trump -- bringing "multiple guns" to Washington! He'll even have one on the front seat of his car [Yahoo! sez], while reminding us that DC law prohibits keeping a firearm in the passenger compartment of a vehicle and has tight restrictions on guns in the capital! The horror! The horror!

I have yet to hear weather-forecast-like phrases such as "the mother of all protests" or "rebelliomageddon", but clearly the lamestream media are whipping up hysteria! 

Why? I am reminded [Coming to the point at last! Ed.] of the Reichstag fire of 1933. For those who don't remember the history of Germany and WWII, the fire was an arson attack on the building housing the Reichstag, the German parliament, four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 

The Nazis blamed the fire on Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist, saying it was the work of Communist agitators. The government used the fire as a pretext to claim that communists were plotting against the German government, and so it became pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

After searching the still-smoldering building, die Polizei arrested Mhr Van der Lubbe, who was found inside, along with four Communist leaders. Within hours, Chancellor Hitler urged President von Hindenburg to issue an "emergency decree" to suspend civil liberties and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communist Party of Germany. The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed the following day.

After the decree was issued, the government instituted mass arrests of Communists, including all of the Communist Party's parliamentary delegates. With their bitter rivals gone and their seats empty, the Nazi Party went from having a plurality to a majority, thus enabling Hitler to consolidate his power. 

Although the Nazis accused the Comintern (Communist International) of the act, many historians now believe, based on archival evidence, that the arson had been planned and ordered by the Nazis as a false flag operation, intended to make absolute their hold on power. Which it did.

Getting back to the events planned for next week, we have already seen evidence that some of the protesters urging the occupation of the Capitol building were actually Antifa and anarchists who had infiltrated the ranks of Trump supporters. There is also the suggestion that some law enforcement personnel didn't try very hard to stop the protesters from running amok. 

Could the events of January 6th be repeated two weeks later? Who knows? History doesn't repeat itself... does it?

What happens tomorrow? Signs and portents

Watching the Sunday Funnies (political TV programmes), I am a bit surprised (and much encouraged) by the way the lamestream media pundits are backing off their earlier predictions of a Biden landslide. What I heard yesterday was a lot of "too close to call" iffery. 

Very Important Reporters are out of the studios, doing standups in places like Florida, Pennsylvania and (ughh, brrr) Michigan, explaining away the crowds and enthusiasm at the Trump events and lack of same at Mr Biden's gatherings of a few parked cars. 

Did you see the clips on Sunday? 1000s of people turned out in miserable weather (in MI at least) to cheer on Still-President Trump. Sleepy Joe stood at the edge of a carpark pretending to orate, while we heard the sounds of silence. See "1000s attend Trump FL rally, crickets heard at Biden rallies", WWW 14/10/20.

The lefties are nervous, friends, and well they might be. So are the pollsters. Have you ever heard so much talk about margins of errors and the "hidden Trump vote"? Just last week, notorious anti-Trumper Michael Moore told Rising that the polls predicting a Biden win were almost certainly wrong. Click here to see the video, posted on WWW 29/10/20. 

Just a few days prior, Robert Cahaly, chief pollster for the Trafalgar Group -- one of the handful who got it right in 2016 -- told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he sees President Trump being reelected. Mr Cahaly cited the aforementioned "hidden vote" which he said is predominantly missing from polling showing Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading nationally and in most swing states. Click here to read the report on The Hill, 21/10/20.

Let's talk about the all-important swing states. As noted above, Michael Moore already concedes that President Trump could win Michigan again. Florida looks like being close, as usual, but Mr Biden's idea of a big and prolonged lockdown isn't playing well in a state where tourism and having fun is essential to economic survival.

The lamestream media are saying Texas is in play, for the first time in decades, and that's why the Dumbocrats sent noted Indo-Jamaican politician Kamala Harris there to stump for Creepy Joe. I don't believe for a minute that TX will vote for the anti-oil party.

So also Pennsylvania, where Old Joe pulled out his rusty service revolver and shot himself in the foot with a promise to end fracking. That may have played well in Philthydelphia [so well described by Bill Burr in "The Philadelphia Incident". You can look it up. Ed.], but that city is already notorious for providing the Dems with "votes on demand" as the results roll in. "Just tell us how many you need!"

The extent of the damage Mr Biden did to himself and his campaign can be seen in the endorsement by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of... wait for it... Still-President Trump. See "The man and the record", PP-G 31/10/20. This is the first time since 1972 that this respected newspaper has come out for a Republican. 

To me, the most telling part of the their editorial is this paragraph:

Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Sen. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.

In Philadelphia (and other Democrat-run cities), there is tangible evidence of fear of what will happen in the aftermath of a Biden win. Business owners big and small are closing their shops, boarding up the windows, hunkering down for the rioting and looting which (they must think) are inevitable. 

Are they afraid of pissed-off conservatives burning down the town if Mr Trump loses? Don't think so. They're afraid of the BLM and Antifa mobs which Biden-Harris refuse to condemn, and will be unable to control once the police are "defunded" and prosecutors are instructed to ignore the "antics of mostly peaceful protesters". See the video "'Black Looters Matter': Aussie Sky News looks at Pennsylvania", WWW 29/10/20. 

Time for a prediction, then? I'm still hoping President Trump will be re-elected, and am cautiously optimistic, but not willing to put down any serious money on it. So if you're a Biden fan (Hello, Agent 17!) and/or a sufferer from TDS, and want to get your bet down, Las Vegas oddsmaker-turned-conservative talk-show host Wayne Allen Root will be happy to accomodate you. 

Writing in Townhall, 1/11/20, he predicts a Trump landslide! His observations are much like those I've just written, so -- although I won't use the word "landslide" -- I don't see how we could both be wrong!  Lifetime pct .985,
 

Further viewing: "Can we still win this?", stream of consciousness from Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, recorded on Sunday night. Can't resist posting this cartoon shown at about 2:55.

Is that THE Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys guy, over there?

Benjamin Dover writes from Dildo NL [You can look it up. Ed.] to enquire whether the bearded gentleman shown in the photo atop our Featured Post, "Don't even think about moving to Canada" (at right) is one and the same as Gavin McInnes, the founder of Proud Boys, mentioned by Still-President Trump in the Dumpster Debate. 

The answer is YES. And so what? But (Ben sez), the Proud Boys have been identified by the Canadian Broadcorping Castration, Antifa and all the others suffering from TDS (see previous post) as a horrible, racist, pro-Republican hate group! 

And Mr Trump told them to "stand back and stand by", so he must be a horrible racist yada yada yada too! 

Dear readers, the Proud Boys are not a far-right hate group. Founded by Gavin McInnes, who is (gasp) a Canadian, they describe themselves as as "Western chauvinists" and have consistently disavowed racism. 

But they are proud to stand up for Western culture and the values that made our countries, Canada and the United States of America, the great countries that they used to be before half a century of progressivism and secular humanism. And they are not afraid to stand up to Antifa, BLM, and the Soros-funded haters on the extreme left.

The CBC (aka CNN North) quotes (((Bernie Farber))), chair of the leftist "Canadian Anti-Hate Network", as saying that President Trump's comments during the debate are "the best thing that could have happened to Proud Boys and the white supremacist movement in probably half a century." He goes on to say that says Mr Trump's words "certainly engaged many Proud Boys supporters on social media." 

Hey, he's talking about us! But, he warns Canucks, the Proud Boys "have a proud history here in Canada of defiance. Some would argue that they're actually more white nationalist here than they are in the States." Believe it or not! 

Note from Ed.: You may have noticed the Montréal Canadiens toque worn by Mr McInnes in the photo on the featured post. Any resemblance between him and Poor Len Canayen is purely coincidental!

Further reading/viewing: "Gavin McInnes calls Canada 'a fucking mess'", WWW 15/1/17. The Proud Boys founder gives some good political reasons for not moving to the Great No-longer-white North.

VIDEO: Previewing "The Plot Against the President"

A couple of days ago, Agent 17 asked me what I thought about QAnon and the theory that there is a Deep State plot to get rid of Still-President Trump. No such conspiracy exists, according to (for instance) WaPo. It's actually the QAnon people who are the conspirators, they say: "QAnon, the Conspiracy Theory Creeping Into U.S. Politics", 23/8/20. It's all the work of the QAnon "wack-jobs", so they say.

But (I asked 17), do you really believe that the Lefties, Antifa, the (((controlled media))), the never-Trumpers, the RINOs and the Dumbocrats, are not pulling out all the stops to ensure that Mr Trump is not re-elected? Do they not say so themselves? About the only thing that I haven't heard people like Crazy Maxine Waters advocate is the actual use of deadly force. On the other hand, the Dems haven't rushed to the microphones to denounce the anti-government, anti-police, anti-everything riots in (for instance) Portland either.

"The Plot Against the President" sounds like the title of a novel, a work of pure fiction, doesn't it? Who (except for QAnon) could think of such a thing in America, the bastion of democracy? In America, presidents are not assassinated... Oh, wait... But that was in the past. Nowadays the best the "antis" can hope for is impeachment. But what does it take to get a President impeached? Something like a conspiracy to manufacture evidence of something like collusion with a foreign power... Russia, for instance.

Which brings us to The Plot Against the President, which turns out to be the title of a real book, a bestseller written by investigative journalist Lee Smith in 2019. The subtitle is Revelations on the Deep State from the House Intelligence Committee. Please note, not QAnon but "the House Intelligence Committee".

Mr Smith's book tells how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the Commander-in-Chief. The allegations, since totally discredited, that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, was actually part of a slow-moving coup engineered by a coterie of the American elite, the "deep state," targeting not only the president, but also the rest of the country.

The good news (?) is that you don't have to read The Plot Against the President. The movie, directed by Amanda Milius, daughter of legendary screenwriter-director John Milius and a State Department alum, is coming out on October 1st! Here's the trailer.



The movie -- a documentary, not a work of fiction -- turns leftist conspiracy theories on the head, and shows who the real conspirators are. (Spoiler alert: Does the phrase "Deep State" mean anything to you?) Expect scathing reviews and heaps of "fact-checking" from the WaPo and the rest of the (((controlled media))) when it appears. Walt's suggestion: go see The Plot Against the President (if it gets into a cinema near you) and judge for yourself. When should you do that? On or before Tuesday, November 3rd!

More poetic justice in Virginia

Readers with long(ish) memories may recall our post headed "Poetic justice in Portsmouth, Virginia" (WWW 13/6/20) in which we told you the sad (NOT!) story of how one of the anti-Black racism (etc etc) protesters tearing down a statue of Robert E. Lee in Portsmouth VA was injured when said statue fell on him. The story ended with Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's pledge to get "justice for all the 'protesters'."

Believe it or not, fourteen (14!) of the "protesters" and their colleagues/associates/supporters -- including a Democratic state senator, three members of the NAACP, and three "public defenders" -- have actually been charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1000.

Charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1000 have been laid against:
State Senator Louise Lucas
James Boyd, Portsmouth NAACP representative
Louie Gibbs, Portsmouth NAACP representative
LaKesha Hicks, Portsmouth NAACP representative
LaKeesha S. "Klu" Atkinson, Portsmouth School Board member
Kimberly Wimbish
Dana Worthington
Amira Bethea

Those charged only with injury to a monument in excess of $1000 are:
Brenda Spry, public defender
Alexandra Stephens, public defender
Meredith Cramer, public defender
Brandon Woodard
Hanah Renae Rivera
Raymond J Brothers

No charges have been laid against Chris Green, the father of two on whom General Lee's statue got its revenge. According to his GoFundMe page, although he cannot walk or talk, Mr Green (who is actually Black) can drink liquids and "is able to feed himself semi-solid foods and is able to drink from a cup independently. Chris is showing emotion by smiling and laughing when appropriate."

As for Senator Lucas, WAVY-TV reported shortly after the "peaceful protest" that a campaign had been launched to effect her recall. Since then, the Virginian-Pilot reports, she has filed a defamation suit against Tim Anderson, who started the campaign, who (she said) falsely accused her of inciting a riot, a felony, and of telling police to stand down while people defaced the monument. How the criminal charges will affect the civil proceeding remains to be seen.

White antifa anarchists have taken over the BLM "protests"

Ed. here. Poor Len thinks that Walt left the picture we posted yesterday where it could be seen easily as a way of putting us off his trail. In reality, Len thinks, Walt is not in the wilderness, but inside the bubble around the Scotiabank Centre in Toronto, where Canada's team (the Montréal Canadiens) are trying to get through the NHL "play-ins", to advance to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Only the hockey players, their support workers and a handful of media types are allowed inside, so if Walt has found a hiding place in the rafters -- "The Phantom of the Arena"? -- he's not about to tell us! Stay tuned...

Meanwhile, it falls to me [and Poor Len! Len.] to fill this space, and not with irrelevant funny stuff, as Walt made clear in a rather scathing message two days ago. Today I've chosen "How white radicals hijacked Portland's protests", by Michael Tracey, on the UnHerd blogsite, 4/8/20. As before, space doesn't allow us to repost the whole article, so I've selected a few trenchant excerpts. If you wish to read the whole thing, click on the link above.

The overwhelmingly white, anarchist activists who populate the ongoing protests in Portland...[have] discovered a work-around to arrogate moral cover for whatever insurrectionary upheaval they would have been ideologically committed to fomenting anyway. The Left/liberal political and media class is deeply invested in preserving the untouchable sanctity of "BLM". So by fusing themselves in the public mind with this ambiguously-defined protest movement, or even putting themselves at the vanguard, the anarchist whites insulate themselves from the type of scrutiny that might ordinarily be prompted by activists whose ultimate goal is the overthrow of the state....

To characterise what's gone on in Portland as a traditional "protest" is a misnomer, however. Pay a visit to the area around the Federal Courthouse in Downtown after midnight and you are greeted by brigades of black-clad "Antifa" foot soldiers — geared up in full body armour, complete with industrial-grade gas masks, shields and even customised radio systems. Being overwhelmingly white, they are strategic about public presentation: the speakers appointed to address the nightly "rallies" are almost exclusively black, as "amplifying black voices" to whom whites must dutifully "listen" is a central tenet of the Summer 2020 protest ethos.

If there is any foundational idea operative in Portland, it's to keep a frenetic confrontation with the state going for as long as possible, so as to maximise the chances that an incendiary incident might occur and catalyse a larger insurrectionary uproar — similar to the killing of George Floyd in May, which sparked nationwide riots. One fateful tear gas canister fired into the temple of a "protester" could reverberate rapidly across the country; "Portland solidarity" actions have already sprouted up as far away as Richmond, Virginia....

When protesters chant "NO GOOD COPS IN A RACIST SYSTEM", the "system" to which they are referring is the foundational system of governance of the United States — again, deemed inherently "fascist" and "white supremacist", and therefore impossible to reform. As one sign wielded by a protester declared: "The Revolution will not come by asking or voting"....

A strange feature of this protest movement is that one would barely know Barack Obama, a black man elected president in a majority white nation, ever existed. Not that Obama's mere election was supposed to have eradicated every last trace of racial inequities in the United States: of course it wasn't. But you'd think it would at least inform popular conceptions of the role of race within the nation's elite power structure. Instead, Obama seems to have been simply "erased" — the significance of his tenure not even worth mentioning. Are we to believe that a country so intractably defined by "white supremacy" — a totally uncontested truism among protesters and their media allies — nonetheless elected a black man not once, but twice? Apparently....

Further reading: "Riotous BLM Protesters Suddenly Realize They're All White People", Babylon Bee, 5/8/20. Don't forget, folks, that the BB is "Christian satire", to be taken cum grano salis... but not too large a grain. Truth is stranger than fiction!

A MAD look at anti-police demonstrations

Taken from "Badge & Billy", a magazine parody, written by Larry Siegel and drawn by George Woodbridge, in MAD Magazine No. 101, June 1966. That's right, folks. This nonsense has been going on for over half a century, ever since the hippy-dippy `60s.

Also in MAD No. 101: Voyage to See What's on the Bottom (TV satire); The Sinpiper (movie satire); MAD's Puzzle Page, Badge & Billy Magazine, College Programs to Develop Masters of Meiocrity, A MAD Treasure of Unknown Poety; When Teenagers Take Over TV Completely; and much more.

Front cover by Norman Mingo. Art by Don Martin, Antonio Prohias, David Berg, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Jack Rickard, Al Jaffee, Joe Orlando, Paul Coker Jr. and George Woodbridge.

Wanna buy it? We've taken down Walt's Attic, but Mrs Walt is cleaning out the attic and has one copy left. 48 b&w newsprint pages plus 4/1 glossy cover (includes MAD Fold-in, not done). Intact. Pages slightly yellowed with age but no tears, creases, dogears or other major damage. Overall condition FINE. US$3.95, plus S&H. Send Ed. an e-mail if you're interested.

Poetic justice in Burlington ON

"What goes `round comes `round." It's been quite a week for poetic or delayed justice for three "protesters". Of course it's fashionable nowadays to be anti-everything, but those who choose to take it into the streets should be aware that sometimes what you were doing when you should have been at home minding your own busines can come back to bite you in the bum.

A couple of days ago Walt told you about an anti-racism "protester" who had a "near miss" when a statue of a Confederate soldier fell on him while he was trying to pull it down. See "Poetic justice in Portsmouth VA", WWW 13/6/20.

While we were posting that -- on that very day -- Sarah Hegazi, a well-known antifa agitator, took her own life in her Toronto apartment. We cannot say why she did it -- something to do with being an openly gay Muslim woman seeking asylum in Canada, perhaps -- but she did tell the CBC in 2018 "Here in Canada, I haven't people, I haven't family, I haven't friends. So I'm not happy here."

Another person who thought Canada wasn't doing very well on rights issue -- "animal rights", in this case -- was (note past tense) Regan Russell, a longtime animal rights activist and member of Toronto Pig Save. [He's not making that up. Ed.]

Ms Russell and her pig-loving friends have been demonstrating for many moons outside slaughterhouses in the Greater [sic] Toronto Area, protesting the inhumane treatment of animals on their way to porcine heaven. A co-founder of Toronto Pig Save, one Anita Krajnc [pronounced "crank"? Ed.] was hauled into court in 2015 for trying to give water to a truckload of swine (the four-footed kind) waiting in the hot sun. Ms Krajnc was found not guilty of criminal mischief, but the case was a big deal (of course) in the lamestream media.

Yesterday, Ms Russell earned herself a Darwin Award, having been fatally struck by a truck while was protesting outside Fearman's Pork, a slaughterhouse in Burlington ON -- the very same place where Ms Krajnc had her encounter with the local constabulary. Ms Krajnc said Ms Russell "was in front of the truck when it ran over her."

The death of the 65-year-old activist comes just two days after the province of Ontario passed legislation that hiked fines for trespassing on farms and food-processing facilities and made it illegal to obstruct trucks carrying farm animals.

Predictably, a large number of activists showed up at the scene, planning to hold an all-night vigil in honour of Ms Russell and the pigs she loved. Said Ms Krajnc, "We have asked management to get some of these pigs in the truck to a sanctuary in her name."

[That's enough. That one was too easy. Ed.]

VIDEO: Sarah Hegazi... Where did we hear that name before?

First the headline from the hagiography by a very sympathetic Nick Boisvert on CBC News. "LGBTQ activist Sarah Hegazi, exiled in Canada after torture in Egypt, dead at 30".

In keeping with the bias of Canuckistan's statebroadcaster, the headline is somewhat misleading. It makes it sound as if Ms Hegazi died as the result of torture by the wicked, homophobic Egyptians. In fact, she committed suicide, after living in Canada for more than two years (at taxpayers' expense, natch) as an "asylum-seeker".

But Ms Hegazi was not idle while she was in the Great No-longer-white North. She was busy fighting for the rights of the alphabet people. Since LGBTQ2etc rights are already well established in Canadian law, she was obliged to turn her attention to campaigning for social justice, and against racism, fascism, yada yada yada, in other ways. Such as? Such as assaulting elderly people at last September's People's Party of Canada rally at Mohawk College, in Hamilton ON. That's her on the left [geddit? Ed.] in the above picture.

In spite of being identified to the Hamilton constabulary (see WWW 11/10/19) as "the 'lady' in the red bandana face mask", who assaulted (besides the lady in the photo), an old man wearing a white PPC hat and an elderly lady using a walker, Ms Hegazi was never arrested. However, her boyfriend Ahmed Alaa, not only mentioned but pictured in today's CBC story, was charged.

This so shamed his Syrian refugee parents that they were "forced" to close down their Toronto restaurant, Soufi's, until they were reassured by liberal politicos and meeja types that it was OK, really, because antifa "protesters" will never be prosecuted. And so it turned out for Mr Alaa, whose charge was somehow forgotten. "Mike, from Simcoe Grey County Clearview Township" takes up the story.



"Here in Canada," Ms Hegazi told the CBC in a 2018 interview, "I haven't people, I haven't family, I haven't friends. So I'm not happy here." The good news, we guess, is that she is now happy in Paradises. I don't know if Muslim women get serviced by 72 virgins or not. Maybe they are segregated from me, as in mosques, but, as an openly gay woman, Ms Hegazi would surely not mind that. So all's well that ends well.

Poetic justice in Portsmouth VA

In the wake of the George Floyd Memorial Riots, the antifa iconoclasts and loonie lefties are at it again, all across America -- and in the UK and Canada too -- trying to haul down statues of President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and assorted other 19th-century white men, all of whom were racists, dontcha know.

In the capital of the Confederacy, Virginia Governorand Panderer-in-Chief Ralph Northam promised to remove the statue of General Lee, but was prevented from following through by a temporary injunction halting the removal for ten days, so a lawsuit challenging his authority so to do can be decided. The suit was filed by the descendant of a family that deeded the land on which the monument sits.

Meanwhile, just down the I-64 in Portsmouoth, "protesters" beheaded four statues on a Confederate monument last Wednesday evening, after the monument was defaced with spray paint. A "protester" told reporters that an apparent "demonstrator" was badly injured after one of the toppled statues fell on his head.

Demonstrators began spray painting the monument after Portsmouth NAACP* president James Boyd and the local organization's vice president, Louie Gibbs, were briefly taken into custody and charged with trespassing, according to the Virginian-Pilot. Their legal moouthpiece -- not "Rev" Al Sharpton -- told the newspaper that both NAACP leaders were released on a summons about 30 minutes later.

So far, the statue has not been charged with any crimes or misdemeanors, but Gov Northam has pledged justice for all the "protesters". Sounds to me like one of them has already received poetic justice!

*Footnote: Someone told me, many years ago in the Heart of Dixie, that "NAACP" stood for five critters commonly found in the South, the second one being "Alligators". Wish I could remember what the other four were.

What's really happening in America

Agent 35 sent us the following message with a request to share...

Scare people with a virus. Place them in quarantine. Count the number of dead every second of every day in every news headline. Close all businesses. 40,000,000 out of jobs. Peak unemployment. Remove entertainment: parks, gyms, bars, restaurants, sports. No dating. No touching. Mask people. Dehumanize them. Close temples and churches. Create a vacuum. Let depression and anxiety and desperation set in.

Then... ignite hatred and civil war. Civil unrest. Empty the prisons because of the virus and fill the streets with criminals. Send in Antifa to vandalize property as if they are freedom fighters. Undermine the law. Loot. Attack law enforcement, but tell government to order a stand-down. We are all being baited by adversarial governments who want to destroy America - China, Iran, Russia. Have the Far Left abuse the racial wars to fuel the fires. And, in an election year, have Democrats blame all of it on the President.

Can’t take America in a war, destroy it from within.

We are being conditioned, manipulated, and programmed by multiple agendas as never before.....time to DO OUR OWN RESEARCH and MAKE UP OUR OWN MINDS rather than eating everything being spoon-fed to us!

Further reading (and watching) (added 11/6/20): "Portland Protesters Abandon Their Own Failed, Police-Free 'Autonomous Zone'", on RT.com, 11/6/20.

Anarchists and protesters in Portland OR, hoping to emulate their brethren in Seattle, have fallen at the first hurdle, or fence, as they abandoned their own improvised "autonomous zone" before it had even been established. Haphazard, spontaneous construction of the "autonomous zone" began during demonstrations on Wednesday night as protesters erected their own barbed-wire fences, appropriated from city authorities, following sporadic clashes with police.

Black Lives Matter doesn't matter any more!

Looks like last night was comparatively peaceful across the Excited States of America. Not so much rfioting and looting as on the weekend and Monday. I expect today we'll see images of good citizens pitching in to clean up the debris left behind by even peaceful "protesters". I predict that 90% of those shown in such photos will be white. Lifetime pct .976.

You realize, gentle reader, that all the commotion in America's cities is not about George Floyd, police brutality, or even racial inequality, about which the SJWs have been moaning for two centuries.

Black lives do not matter! At least, not to antifa types, the mostly white leftists who are the real "protesters". What we are seeing is a well-organized, well-funded, violent campaign to overthrow the government of the USA. Well... not the whole government... just the man at its head, Still-President Trump.

The bad news for them -- good news for the USA -- is that the protests-cum-riots are having the opposite effect from that intended. They have all but insured the November re-election of the Donald! (Lifetime pct still .976.) I have to admit that Mr Trump hasn't come through the Covid-19 Dempanic covered with glory. But the rioters have effectivelyl ended the lockdown by defying it, and the rest of us figure that if they can take to the streets without worrying about getting the virus, we can take to the beaches!

As well, the media hysteria about "anti-black racism" has all but totally displaced the media hysteria about the Dempanic. And in this chapter of the soap opera that is American politics, President Trump is the one who looks like a hero -- the only one standing up for law and order, while dozen of weak-willed and weak-kneed Democratic politicians fall all over themselves to signal virtue and pander to the anti-American agitators.

I am now the only one who thinks that the "protesters" will succeed in keeping President Trump in the White House. Let me share a few well-chosen words from "Seven Thoughts on the Civil War the Other Side Wants So Badly", by Scott McKay, in The Spectator, 2/6/20.

The police can handle these rioters if they're allowed to. If the police can't, in some circumstances, the National Guard certainly can. This isn't some invading army; it's the dregs of society who have been induced into the streets for free air fryers from Target. The slightest application of law enforcement muscle will put this rioting down.

[On why the areas trashed by the riots won't ever be rebuilt] At the end of the day, everybody figures this is an area where the locals were so stupid and so disrespectful that they looted and burned down the very shops that kept the neighborhood going. And who wants to do business with such people?

You don't have to go any further back than 1968 to know that when America gets its fill of domestic violence and insurrection, it votes for the most conservative candidate it can find. How do you think Richard Nixon, who was the political version of a broken-down claiming horse who had lost an election for the governorship of California just a few years earlier, rolled into the White House like a tsunami? Nixon was the law-and-order candidate. It didn't really matter what else he was; the Silent Majority gave him the job and a mandate to put an end to The Sixties.

Democrats have been trying to recreate The Sixties ever since, and the public has been trying to tell them The Sixties weren't all that awesome.
Trump is going to law-and-order this all the way home. It’s an easy play for him. Trump’s response hasn’t been perfect, but he’s going to dominate the discussion the longer this goes. Do Democrats really think they’re going to beat him without even denouncing the riots? Are they that stupid?

Of course they are. Of course they are.

Well said, Mr McKay. Couldn't have said it better myself. [You got that right! Ed.]

Darkness falls on Washington

UPDATED: Tucker Carlson: It's all OUR fault; don't you know that?

You know what's funny? Watching the organized, paid, criminal BLM mob vandalizing the "iconic" CNN sign outside the Clinton News Network HQ in Atlanta. CNN is one of the chief storytellers of the Big Media Lie that what we're witnessing in cities across America are "protests", not "crimes of the mob" or "race riots". And here are the BLMers and antifa types attacking their champions.

It's all our fault, dontcha see... those of us who work hard, pay our taxes, and obey the laws of the land, even when the laws (Wear a mask!) are ridiculous. That's what the liberal elites would have you believe. Fox News's Tucker Carlson has more to say....

Updated 31/5/20: Well... this is embarrassing... Apparently Fox News videos don't stay embedded forever, and the clip we posted is not on YouTube, or at least Ed. couldn't find it. Sorry.

VIDEOS: "Lady" who attacked elderly at Hamilton PPC rally identified

The "lady" in the red bandana face mask who assaulted elderly people at the People's Party of Canada event in Hamilton ON on September 29th has now been identified by vigilant YouTubers as Sarah Hegazi, a well-known Antifa agitator.



Ms Hegazi's companion, Alaa Soufi DaLua, also outed in the video, has been a source of some embarrassment to his family, who came to Canada as part of the wave of Syrian "refugees" in 2017, and opened up Soufi's restaurant in Toronto. They went on social media recently to apologize for the actions of their son, while announcing that they would have to shut down the restaurant because of alleged death threats. That brought a wave of sympathy from Canada's lamestream media, far surpassing any sympathy shown for the lady with the walker who was confronted by Ms Hegazi and her companions. Mike from Simcoe-Grey County-Clearview Township has posted this video which tells the real story.



Hamilton police have been notified, but so far have not announced any charges.

UPDATED VIDEO: The free speech event Antifa couldn't shut down

So what was that -- the antifa/communist not-so-peaceful demonstration outside Mohawk College in Hamilton ON on 29 September -- all about? It was, as Maxime Bernier and Frank Vaughn said in videos recorded on the 30th, an exercise by radical leftist thugs of their view of "free speech" -- which means, to them, that you're free to speak as long as your views agree with theirs.

The symposium, "Uncensored: Free Speech in Canada", was organized by the People's Party of Canada, and featured popular American YouTuber David Rubin, in a roudtable discussion with PPC leader Maxime Bernier. The usual suspects -- antifa, union leaders, left-wing academics etc -- had demanded that Mohawk College cancel the event, but Mohawk (to their credit) said the McIntyre Arts Centre was for rent to the public (including the PPC) and the event could go ahead.

So about 100 loonie lefties gathered outside the venue and made would-be attenders run the gauntlet. About 500, including Agent 3 did, that, and thoroughly enjoyed the main panel discussion, featuring Messrs Bernier and Rubin, with PPC candidates Frank Vaughan (on the left in the picture, but not politically!) and Prof. David Haskell.

The warm-up act (so to speak) was a speech by Dr Salim Mansur, a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Dr Mansur is a former columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun, and has contributed to various publications including National Review and the Middle East Forum. He is an immigrant who became a Canadian citizen, and a Muslim. And he is now the People's Party of Canada candidate in London North Centre. And they say the PPC is racist and Islamophobic? Hah!

Here is a video of the entire event -- Frank Vaughan's introduction, Dr Masur's speech, and the panel discussion. It runs just over an hour and a half, and every minute is worth watching.