Why are liberals siding with Portland’s violent
anarchists against law-abiding feds?
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/25/2020 12:14:39 AM
Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that antifa “protesters” are “largely peaceful.” And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle and Denver haven’t been looted yet, who am I to argue?Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens. And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing “protesters” are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves. There’s little doubt that if alt-right activists
Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/25/2020 12:45:16 AM (No. 489844)
because they are soros/EU backed anti-Americans..
next question..
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Because they are getting paid ? Bring back the draft.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/25/2020 3:37:36 AM (No. 489871)
Liberalism is a hate crime. Liberal speech is hate speech.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/25/2020 3:53:18 AM (No. 489880)
Why? Because of 12 years of public education followed by 4 years (or how many mommy and daddy will pay for) for a masters degree in depravity and the joys of communism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 7/25/2020 4:10:15 AM (No. 489889)
What the Feds should do is arrest a few of these liberal , crazy, Mayors and other officials and charge them with aiding and abetting the ones doing the rioting and destruction and see how they like that. I assume that federal charges of aiding and abetting would be serious accusations and would get their attention.
This rioting, looting and mayhem must be stopped NOW if this country is to survive !!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
judy 7/25/2020 4:13:49 AM (No. 489894)
It started with not stopping illegal sanctuary cities Allowing drivers license, , welfare , for illegals, allowing homeless in tents on streets, Letting thousands of prisoners out of jail, allowing no bond for the criminals, not stopping the JD from The persecution Of Trump , his family & staff for 5years . The libs starting with Obama, Comey & Biden knew they could do anything without consequences.....and most of all the so called press encouraged bad behavior. Trump is probably the most honest person in DC
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Obola told you he would fundamentally change America. Looks like he succeeded.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/25/2020 5:35:24 AM (No. 489914)
The democrat party wants chaos. First the lockdowns, over exaggerated virus, masks, torture, riots, looting, death to the elderly, defund the police, protect Antifa and BLM, they will do anything to make our lives miserable. All this to create chaos so that we would get fed up with Pres. Trump and not vote for him. It's only the democrat ran cities and democrat governors. The democrats want congress, senate and the WH.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 7/25/2020 6:25:25 AM (No. 489929)
Why?? This is not a trick question!! It's because "Orangemanbad" works as an acceptable excuse for their fecklessness with the lying leftist media so they are now trying get their street cred with the anarchy set!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 7/25/2020 6:31:23 AM (No. 489931)
They'er Marxist Communists serving Lucifer against God our Father, hell bent on the destruction of America from within as they hate Christianity which teaches they should have moral rules of good conduct and behave themselves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/25/2020 6:59:58 AM (No. 489949)
I agree that the outright aiding and abetting of the leftist rioters by Democrat Governors and Mayors may be motivated by their hatred for President Trump, but the origin of it all started much earlier and much deeper with the "sanctuary city" actions of the Democrats and the complete lack of reaction by federal authorities. In effect, lawlessness by the Democrat local authorities was condoned, and that led to a general disregard for ANY laws they didn't like. And the longer it went on (decades now), the more brazen their acceptance and even participation in lawlessness became.
"Governmental Broken Window" theory in action...allowing even minor lawlessness results in major lawlessness. What could have been stopped early and easily, such as with cutoff of federal funds, now will be extremely difficult and dangerous, including possible use of federal forces (already starting) to quell the hotspot insurrections or pitched civilian gun battles, which I believe will soon happen in a few places.
All because the Republicans kept looking the other way on "sanctuary cities." No, they were and are really "insurrection cities." Burn, baby, burn.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 7/25/2020 7:42:09 AM (No. 489992)
Leftists' hatred of Trump has erased any critical thinking skills they may have had. It makes them look really stupid. Their liberal colleges also did a good job of brainwashing them. They're hopeless.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/25/2020 7:50:25 AM (No. 489999)
All those terrorists carrying ''Peace'' signs is an indication of how brain dead they are. Their definition of peace means violence. All the leftover hippies are giving bad advice to the ignorant youths.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/25/2020 8:13:19 AM (No. 490018)
Close, #13, but not quite there. All of the leftover hippies are doing much more than giving advice, they are running this show. They got older, cut their hair, put on suits and got themselves jobs at universities or elected and sent to Washington. They no longer look like hippies but inside they are the radicals from the 60’s who now hold real power and are using it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hermoine 7/25/2020 8:39:01 AM (No. 490059)
When the Feds are controlled by the LEFT, they can burn children to death on NATIONAL TV (Waco) and put an M16 in a kid's face (Elian Gonzales), but when Conservatives are in control, heave forbid that teargas is used is against violent thugs and arsonists.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/25/2020 8:40:20 AM (No. 490063)
Hatred of trump suggest that if PDT were not there they would go away and become ordinary law abiding Americans. That is obviously not the case. I do see a silver lining to this mess. All these years their organizer and drivers were smart enough to cleverly mask their intentions and hide behind the smoke screen thrown up by the Left Media. This time they seem to have taken complete leave of their senses. What remains to be seen is, however, if the voters are stupider.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/25/2020 9:07:59 AM (No. 490100)
All we need up there is one good sniper. I would even come out of retirement if the price is right, nah I would do it for free.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 7/25/2020 9:18:36 AM (No. 490120)
It's a lot simpler than many believe. These people are empty and angry. They have come to believe that their life is meaningless and are furious that the pablum they've been fed while growing up about "Self worth" evaporated soon after puberty struck. They have a God-size hole in their hearts that they cannot fill because they have rejected Him. So, they seek to destroy as a scream of existential revenge!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
little guy 7/25/2020 10:16:42 AM (No. 490174)
Portland is getting what it deserves. Sorry. And so is Chicago, and Seattle and Minneapolis and St. Louis and all the other Demo-crap cities --- even NYC.
Who'd you vote for? You like giving away free stuff and all sitting around caring about how everyone feels and whether you're mean for just being white etc. Forget about the police and enforcement of the law. Let's all hold hands & hug instead.
Totally forgot to read your history books! From ancient Rome to 1790 France to Russia 1920 to Germany 1938 up to the modern time Gaza Strip and the Palestinians. Appeasing mob rule NEVER, ever works as they always want more, more, more.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/25/2020 10:26:35 AM (No. 490187)
"Why are liberals siding with Portland’s violent anarchists against law-abiding feds?"
Study up on events of pre-Nazi Germany in the 1932-33 period when very bad people known as Antifaschistische Atkion and the brownshirts had formed in Germany. And the police were ordered to stand down while citizens were being terrorized. Germany was experiencing very tough economic conditions and there were no jobs. Hence, the formation of these groups. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler promised an economic utopia and rose to power. The citizens did absolutely nothing to stop the insanity and drank Hitler's cool aid. Boy, they sure got their utopia, didn't they? Sarc. Same situation today in America. And our cities liberal mayors and state governors act as brownshirt leaders. Doesn't this all sound familiar? Evil is repeating itself right before our eyes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DynomiteThings 7/25/2020 10:38:21 AM (No. 490199)
This is only happening in Democrat run cities. I'm sick and tired of bailing out these useless morons, let them burn their cities to the ground. They are exposing themselves as the party of chaos and violence, which is assuring Trump's landslide win in November. I'd bet that half of voting Democrats will secretly vote for Trump because they are scared of these dangerous Communists, as well they should be.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Arby 7/25/2020 10:59:27 AM (No. 490217)
Because, as Eric Hoffer said, the people that join these kinds of movements are people with empty lives who want to belong to something, anything, so that they can stop feeling sad and worthless. Remember the movie The Hill; it's about a pointless, harassing exercise in which people are forced to climb up and down an artificial hill. Sean Connery approaches the drill sergeant-type who's running the operation and tells him that he has his number; he's the sort of person who would become a dustman (i.e. a garbage collector) if they permitted him to wear a uniform. These are the liberals and the anarchists, the vandals and the looters--pathetic individuals desperately trying to feel important.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 7/25/2020 11:03:46 AM (No. 490224)
They agree with the agenda wholeheartedly.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/25/2020 12:23:09 PM (No. 490327)
I often wonder if these peoples’ live are empty because they were packed off to day care as infants and barely had any nurturing from their parents. Could it be that they feel unwanted and have no self worth because Mom and Dad were more interested in cash than their kids? Yes, I know that it’s hard to make it on one income but it can be done with a few lifestyle changes. When my daughter was a child we lived in suburban DC and I was a stay at home mom. We didn’t have lavish vacations and our cars were ancient, but our daughter never doubted her worth or our love for her.
OK, flame away!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
federale 7/25/2020 12:46:42 PM (No. 490347)
Like Hitler, they want to ride on the mobs coattails to obtain power.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/25/2020 1:22:52 PM (No. 490372)
Here are the names of the Portland indicted Antifas, just to shame them:
Jennifer Kristiansen, 37
Zachary Duffly, 45
Wyatt Ash-Milby,18
Caleb Ehlers, 23
Paul Furst, 22
Jerusalem Callahan, 24
Joseph Ybarra, 21
Marnie Sager, 27
Ella Miller, 26
Taylor Lemoms, 31
Giovanni Bondurant, 19
Gabriel Houston, 22
Joseph Lagalo, 37
Bailey Dreibelbis, 22
Nicholas Kloiber, 26
David Hazan, 24
Hailey Holden, 30
Cameron Knuetson
Not too many African-sounding names. They are being investigated by the US Marshals Service so we may get better results than from the disgraced, good for nothing, 17,000 agent strong, FBI.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/25/2020 1:48:25 PM (No. 490393)
Ditto #1... it's soros' chance to seize power....china and europe are doing the global thing to try and Bring Americans to their knees... with the help of democraps in charge....soros paid good money to the campaigns of these leftie mayors and they can't and won't cross the money guys....the good news is AMERICANS are waking up...and their days are numbered... even Madigan of Illinois has been busted..he ran the Illinois House and Senate in Springfield.... and he got caught bullying his political buddies onto lucrative Board of Directors... just like his buddie biden....
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/25/2020 4:38:32 PM (No. 490493)
One reason is they actually believe the lies of the fake media as their gospel.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 7/25/2020 5:47:47 PM (No. 490544)
Right on # 2. The draft wii put the fear of God into these little reprobates and it will make them respect America. Fear is a great motivator. Worked for a lot of people in 1969.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/25/2020 6:27:23 PM (No. 490564)
Democrats have been siding with America's foreign enemies against America for over fifty years. Adding domestic enemies to the mix isn't that much of a stretch.
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