As Revolution Rages

 From Return to Order:

Their radical goals can be found on the BLM web site, and in numerous articles, tweets, and interviews. They extend far beyond the civil rights struggle of old. The BLM manifesto of beliefs wants to overthrow the present “racist” society and replace it with an egalitarian, socialist society that embraces all “oppressed” groups and identities—including class, gender identity, sexual orientation, and immigration status.

For example, the movement seeks to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another.” Theirs is “a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.”

Perhaps its most dangerous belief is its stubborn adherence to class struggle ideology, applying it to their cause. In this case, it reduces all problems to a “systemic” racism that must be opposed in all social structures and institutions. It creates a false division of society and puts all racial and identity categories at war with the present established order.

Thus, for example, the BLM movement wants to abolish policing and prisons as instruments of “white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal imperialism.” It targets all manifestations of capitalism as tools of oppression and seeks to defer and eventually abolish rent, mortgages, and utility fees. (Read more.)

 

From The Conservative Review:

 It’s the type of nightmare we never envisioned even under a Democrat presidency. Truckers on the nation’s highways and streets now face a serious threat of being surrounded by a mob or potentially dragged out of their trucks and beaten, reminiscent of grisly images we’ve seen in other parts of the world. Where is the Trump administration’s plan to protect the nation’s truckers from the anarchist mobs?

Minneapolis crime watchers reported Wednesday night that a group of four males were attempting to pull truckers out of their cabins. Another trucker was reportedly driving on the Bobby Jones Expressway in Augusta, Georgia, when his fully loaded tanker truck came under gunfire, as if he were traveling in Afghanistan. Similar stories have reportedly occurred on I-70 in Ohio and I-95 in Connecticut. Truck drivers have reported at least two shootings on interstate highways near Memphis, Tennessee. These are some of the most traveled interstate highways in the country, where we now have armed anarchists shooting at motorists.

If securing our interstate highways is not a job for the federal government when states are refusing to protect them, then I don’t know what is. If armed right-wing militias were shooting at trucks or blocking them and attacking the drivers, I don’t think the government would have waited more than 24 hours to take action. We’re now going on four weeks.

According to a poll on trucking app CDLLife, 79 percent of truck drivers said they’d refuse to deliver to any city that defunds the police.

The problem is that even without such legislation, the police have essentially been abolished. Officers get prosecuted for doing their jobs, while rioters escape prosecution. Consequently, they have taken a hands-off approach, resulting in mobsters blocking roads and highways with impunity. The police have been abolished in all but name only, which is why Trump must secure the roads with federal resources until order is restored at the local level. (Read more.)

From Charles Coulombe at Crisis: 

Attacks on statues and monuments around the developed world have grown ever stronger since my last posting, with ever increasing incoherence—and irrelevance—as far as a certain death in Minneapolis goes. The latest to catch my attention was someone painting DICKENS RACIST on the great writer’s home, a stupidity perhaps exceeded only by painting RACIST KING on Robert the Bruce’s statue at Bannockburn. If, as Forrest Gump assures us, “Stupid is as stupid does,” there are a whole lot of idiots flailing around.

And yet, if we move beyond their obvious stupidity, the mobs’ attacks on all things Western does have a certain internal logic; everything worthwhile and much that isn’t across the planet—in religion, culture, technology, politics, economics, and all else—ultimately came to us from Europe, or, if you are obsessed with DNA, from the whites. The global civilization which allows goods, services, and latterly pandemics to travel freely and quickly across the planet is built upon the foundations of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, British, Russian, and other colonial empires. In token of this, the United Nations have set themselves the goals of providing peacekeeping, food security, and medical assistance for the entire world. As Kipling put it so pithily in his poem, The White Man’s Burden, “the savage wars of peace, fill full the mouth of famine, and bid the sickness cease.” With very few exceptions (Japan, Thailand, Bhutan, and the Islamic monarchies, who nevertheless attempt to justify themselves in Western terms) the world’s governments are entirely based on Western ideas (even if these are honored in the breach). Ironically, such groups as ISIS were forced to reinvent Islam as a Western ideology, and the nationalisms that created such artificial countries as India and Indonesia were European inventions. Even our friends in Antifa and BLM, by embracing Marxism, have sold themselves to a European idea. In a word, try as they might, without scooping out their own brains, they cannot escape their own Western nature—they are incapable of thinking outside of what is ultimately a European matrix. (Read more.)

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