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In case anyone missed them, here are Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series about the British public’s suspicion over the continuing coronavirus lockdown.
The June protests vexed Britons who were trying to do the right thing: staying at home and social distancing when outdoors.
All of a sudden, that flew out the window. Protesters had pride of place, yet, the rest of us still had to obey the social distancing guidelines.
That rankled, especially as we had been told we were selfish because we wanted to hug our loved ones who didn’t live with us. Think of grandparents and grandchildren.
What about people who just needed to get outdoors in the fresh air by themselves?
What about children who longed to see their friends? This former barrister and co-editor of Conservative Woman nails it:
And what about the people who freaked out over a very limited reopening of schools on Monday, June 1?
What about the average law-abiding person?
Yes, those people are ‘the problem’. We are made to feel guilty through no fault of our own.
The frustrating hypocrisy of it all:
Then we had Piers Morgan taking issue with Boris’s top adviser for trying to care for his little boy and with Labour MP Barry Gardiner for attending the demonstrations. Yet, Piers applauded his own son for taking part in the protests:
But I digress.
There was no social distancing during the protests. In fact, some police officers in London were assaulted.
However, even though Health Secretary Matt Hancock advised that the rules be kept in place over the weekend of June 6 and 7:
… the lack of social distancing was acceptable:
It was for a cause.
Health ‘experts’ said so — 1,200 of them, in fact:
Tucker Carlson had an excellent editorial on this on Friday, June 5. Anyone complaining about social distancing and protests is ‘the problem’, not the protesters and rioters. Well worth a watch. You could not make this up:
But what about the people told to leave London parks because they were sunbathing by themselves? What about Piers Corbyn who was arrested twice for advocating against lockdown? Where were the Metropolitan Police during the protests? On hand, but either taking a knee or standing by doing nothing:
Boris didn’t do anything, either. We have a Home Secretary. He could have got in touch with her.
This is what he issued on Saturday, June 6, the day of yet another protest in London over an American who died on home soil in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
‘The evils of fascism’. Don’t make me laugh, Prime Minister.
Things were no better in Northern Ireland …
… or Scotland, where thousands were expected to attend a protest on Glasgow Green:
The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, was a bit slow on the riots. Didn’t he know that American cities were being destroyed and shops across the country looted? President Trump never stopped peaceful assembly:
Anyway, there is some good news in all of this. More people in the public eye have noticed that continuing lockdown in the UK is a bad idea:
Unfortunately, a number of ‘senior figures’ from the NHS do not see it that way, primarily because of the close proximity of protesters in early June. That is not the fault of the British public and is likely to make them even angrier. They were not among the protesters. They are eager to get back to work.
In fact, said ‘senior figures’ will probably make the British public all the more suspicious about the protests. Were they timed to prevent lifting of lockdown? We’ll never know.
In any event, this concludes this series with a few key points to keep in mind:
It’s going to be a long, hot, tense summer here in the UK.
What on earth is going on?
Until the deplorable death of George Floyd, most of us were told we must social distance because of coronavirus.
Now a few Western countries have been breaking that rule to protest by the thousands as well as set fires and loot.
The media have their role to play in this, too.
From former reporter Adam Housley and his Twitter followers:
Incredibly, some — not all — nurses are the common point in the Venn diagram of coronavirus and protests. Don’t they have patients?
On the other end of the spectrum, we have General Mattis calling President Trump divisive because he wants to stop Washington DC from becoming an ashtray:
Remember the early days of the Trump administration? The Left didn’t like Mattis. Now he’s their best friend:
And what about the average guys and gals who aren’t doing triage or serving in the military?
They’re being told by their notional betters that they are wrong to want to hug their grandchildren, attend a funeral or go to church. Such people are called ‘Grandma Killers’.
Protesting, rioting, setting streets alight and looting during a pandemic are perfectly acceptable alternatives to these people. Here’s a great thread from journalist Drew Holden with a gimlet eye on his peers:
Drew Holden then brings in a few Dem governors before returning to journalists and political activists:
These are two of the replies he received. I fully agree with the sentiments:
Ian Miles Cheong, the managing editor of Human Events, is always worth a read.
Here’s footage of ‘peaceful’ demonstrators in Seattle:
He came to this conclusion:
However, people are afraid to not support the protests, possibly like the aforementioned nurses.
Mollie Hemingway from The Federalist highlighted this poll from Emerson:
Tucker Carlson tells us not to surrender to the mob. True.
On the other hand, we need to be aware that some looters and vandals are being released from police custody:
Incredible.
Equally incredible is that churches cathedrals were vandalised across the nation. Some cathedrals now require extensive repair, as the Catholic News Agency reported on Monday, June 1 (emphases mine):
Catholic churches and cathedrals in several cities were among the buildings damaged in the protests and riots that occurred nationwide over the past week.
Church buildings in California, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky, Texas, and Colorado were attacked. Many of the defaced or damaged churches were cathedrals. The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver sustained permanent damage.
Vandals repeatedly struck the Denver cathedral on multiple nights of the protests and riots over the weekend. The church building and rectory were spray painted with the slogans āPedofilesā [sic], āGod is dead,ā āThere is no God,ā along with other anti-police, anarchist, and anti-religion phrases and symbols.
Gates surrounding the cathedral were damaged, and tear gas that was fired to disperse the protests leaked into the rectory. The doors to the cathedral are believed to have been permanently damaged by the vandalism and will reportedly need to be replaced.
Three bags of rocks were collected from the parking lot, but the cathedralās most valuable windows were unharmed. Other windows on the cathedralās campus were shattered.
St. Patrickās Cathedral in New York City was tagged with various graffiti, including profanities, āNo justice, no peace,ā āBLMā (Black Lives Matter) āNYPDK.ā The name of George Floyd was also written on the stairs outside the cathedral …
Sickening.
One of the strangest journalistic twists was the invitation from the New York Times to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) to write an editorial about the riots. He nails it:
Yes, they did apologise for it, in a way:
Ultimately:
The Federalist‘s Sean Davis had a go at their reporters. The responses are good, too:
In 2019, only 10 blacks died at the hands of the police. The United States has approximately 325 million people. Meanwhile, 48 police officers were fatally wounded, according to FBI data.
In 2015, under Obama’s presidency, the number of blacks dying at the hands of the police was three times higher.
Tucker Carlson has the details of the ten deaths in the video below. The details of the cases come from the Washington Post. In only two of the cases, an officer was criminally charged. In the other cases, the suspects had attacked or assaulted police officers in various ways, including firing a taser and driving at full speed after them.
In 2018, over 7,000 blacks in America were murdered — no police involvement. So, that’s one police murder for every 700 committed by civilians, often people they knew.
I would encourage everyone — especially those living outside of the United States — to watch Tucker run through the statistics and share them with their friends and family:
Bottom line: factually, there’s no need to riot.
As a final thought, here are two great videos from a Trump supporter, who says it’s time for Americans to put away their divisions and, together, embrace patriotism. Language warning, but well worth watching:
Yet, despite all this — coronavirus and riots — maybe America is poised for a swift economic recovery this year:
As the president is so fond of saying: ‘The best is yet to come’.
I certainly hope so, for America’s — and Donald Trump’s — sake.
As was true with coronavirus, Trump’s impeachment, Brexit and everything else, the media are driving their own narrative with the protests and riots concerning the death of George Floyd.
Let’s remember that the US Constitution has not changed. Here’s President Trump’s newish press secretary Kayleigh McEnany:
Oddly, the New York Times agrees:
Yet, in general, the media are standing up for, if not promoting, violence on streets across the United States:
Politely put.
In addition to the media, we have public officials, such as the Chair of New York City Council health committee. Here are a few of his tweets, which include coronavirus commentary:
Earlier in the year, he tweeted about Chinese New Year, in spite of the coronavirus threat, which he downplayed at the time:
The governor of North Carolina joined a local protest but had the gall to tell President Trump that, for social distancing purposes, he would have to downsize the already-booked Republican National Convention this summer:
Then there are those defending America — National Guardsmen — who feel compelled to take a knee for the protesters, so they can be left alone. Or is it that they would rather not be there?
And that sort of thing leads to this (too sad to post). It took place in London, encouraged by a mother who should know better.
I am glad someone posted about that video. He has a long thread about this and has added two more videos. Excerpts follow:
He drops a name in his thread, then continues:
He should have briefed them before they went out that day — and obeyed the rules himself.
Continuing with the thread:
Kneel before no one, especially when they might be lawbreakers:
Well said.
Perhaps you have seen scenes like this on the news during the past several days:
In fact, yes, someone did hurt a dog — a rescue puppy in Memphis. Unthinkable:
Some equally unbelievable things happened with regard to law enforcement and justice:
Active and retired policemen have been shot and, in some cases, killed in these riots.
I hope this officer recovers:
At least they made an arrest:
Sadly, this retired police captain from St Louis died. He was working in his friend’s pawn shop at the time:
Then there were the Catholic and Episcopal clergy upset with President Trump. I won’t go into the Episcopal side of things in this post, but the Catholic archbishop was outraged that the First Couple went to visit the Shrine of Pope John XXIII.
Such visits are normally booked well in advance for security reasons. It’s unlikely the Trumps just turned up.
But, there’s a little more to the archbishop’s story — hypocrisy:
As for the visit to St John’s Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square, it turns out that the Pentagon advisor who resigned is a Democrat donor:
Tucker Carlson has called out the rest of the media for spinning these ‘protests’ like crazy when many of them turn into riots and looting:
Indeed.
Fortunately, the public are getting clued up:
Indeed, messaging will be key this year.
Meanwhile, let’s stop trusting our media outlets.
I’ll have more on the protests tomorrow.
A lot of Americans vote Democrat because their families have done so for generations.
A lot of Christians also vote Democrat because a) for Catholics, it was known as ‘the party of the Church’ and b) others, today, view Dems as kind people concerned about the downtrodden.
Below are three reasons why American voters should think again about voting for Democrat candidates.
New DNC resolution
At the end of August 2019, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a party resolution: ‘Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic’.
An excerpt follows, emphases mine:
WHEREAS, the nonreligious have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policymaking where assumptions of religiosity have long predominated; and
WHEREAS, those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of āreligious liberty,ā to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities; and
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party is an inclusive organization that recognizes that morals, values, and patriotism are not unique to any particular religion, and are not necessarily reliant on having a religious worldview at all; and
WHEREAS, nonreligious Americans made up 17% of the electorate in 2018 and have the potential to deliver millions more votes for Democrats in 2020 with targeted outreach to further increase turnout of nonreligious voters …
What nonsense.
Americans, whether religious or not, are more pluralistic at any time since the US was founded. I personally know average families who have embraced gay sons and daughters. Others have welcomed marriages of their children with those of another faith or race.
Therefore, there seems no good reason to adopt this sort of resolution.
The Stream has an article about it: ‘Democratic Party Passes Resolution Against Christianity’.
The author, Tom Gilson, a senior editor of The Stream and author of books on Christianity and modern day living, raises important points about this move. Excerpts follow:
The key paragraph:
Those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of āreligious liberty,ā to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities ā¦
The partyās hostility toward Christian beliefs and values was clear enough before. Putting it on paper this way, however, raises the message to another level.
The Democrats want to see Christians on the defense. And theyāre good at putting us there. They have special skill with scare words. Even the simple word āparticularā makes us look small, small-minded, and off in an intellectual corner somewhere. Of course none of that is true.
They put āreligious libertyā in scare quotes, as if the concept of it werenāt in all Americaās founding conversations, and in the first paragraph of the Bill of Rights. They speak, too, of ācivil rights,ā āliberties,ā and āminorities.ā America has sacralized these words, hardly ever stopping to ask when they apply, and when theyāre nice-sounding words that donāt belong where theyāre being used.
And thereās no simple response to this. Thatās not because the answer is unclear, but because so much needs explaining to get it across. We live in different worlds, as it were. When a party takes aim at the Western worldās moral foundation, itās no longer making mere political statements. This is a worldview statement.
In the Democratsā world, ācivil rightsā are no longer endowed by our creator. Theyāre human products, human inventions. Gay marriage is example number one: It became a right when five Supreme Court justices said it was …
Christianity gets criticized for aligning with the Republican Party. Iām not comfortable with that myself. Thereās great danger in tying ourselves to any political group. But what choice do Democrats leave us now? There are only two major parties. One of them has made its stand. Itās against us. We canāt vote Democrat and hold to our Christian values and beliefs.
Let me repeat that: We canāt vote Democrat and hold to our Christian values and beliefs. That doesnāt mean we have to agree with everything our president does. It doesnāt even mean we have to be Republicans. But for all the options seemingly open to Christians, one of them is shut tight, at least for now ā by Democratsā own decision.
Abuse of Trump donors and supporters
On August 5, Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), released a list of prominent Trump donors in the San Antonio area.
On August 10, Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican Party, responded:
One month later, the tweet is still up.
No, Ronna, Democrats will never be forced to condemn such a heinous move. However, if Republicans did such an unthinkable thing, it would be all over the news 24/7 for months.
On August 10, MSNBC featured a discussion between host and guest about physically harming Trump supporters:
Trending Politics covered the discussion, which concerned a Trump donor’s fundraiser as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s harassment outside of his home while he was recovering from a recent injury. Language alert below:
On Thursday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes agreed with a guest on his show, Elie Mystal who said that Trump donors should be met with pitchforks and torches.
āPeople of color are already targets under this administration,ā Elie Mystal said to Hayes. āI have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther, I want pitchforks and torches outside this manās house in the Hamptons.ā
āIāve been to the Hamptons, itās very nice, but thereās no reason why it has to be,ā he added. āThereās no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. Thereās no reason why people shouldnāt be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.ā
Mystal’s comments were directed towards billionaire Stephen Ross who recently held a fundraiser for President Trump’s re-election campaign.
āTotally,ā Hayes agreed. āThere have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnellās house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Rossās house]. Again, itās all speech.ā
The protests outside of McConnell’s house were anything but peaceful. The demonstrations were caught on camera shouting death threats. One liberal even screamed ājust stab the motherfucker in the heart.ā
āTrump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,ā Mystal stated. āBut Equinox man is holding an āEyes Wide Shutā party and heās surprised the people are getting up in his grill.ā
Here’s the video in full:
Can you imagine if Republicans had a conversation like that on Fox News? MSNBC would be dissecting it until Election Day next year.
Do Democrats honestly think that such extremist talk will make Trump supporters falter? Why on earth would Trump supporters want to even vote Democrat after such views were aired?
This is but one example of the hate Democrats have for Trump supporters. Here’s another, from the New York Post on September 1:
Witness Hollywoodās new ĀMcCarthyism. āWill & Graceā stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack could just have boycotted a fundraiser for President Trump next month if they donāt like Republicans.
But thatās not enough for the Tolerance Taliban. They want the names of anyone who does show up at the fundraiser so they can be blacklisted.
āPlease print a list of all attendees please. The public has a right to know,ā Messing tweeted Friday in response to a Hollywood Reporter story about the Emmy-week function.
McCormack piled on, āKindly report on everyone attending this event, so the rest of us can be clear about who we donāt wanna work with.ā
Itās sinister that high-profile entertainers could harbor such illiberal instincts and have no shame about displaying them for all to see. But the most damage they do is to their own credibility.
I hope the reporter is correct about the credibility angle. Personally, I am less optimistic.
Number of illegals higher than estimated
Recently, Tucker Carlson discussed a Yale University study that says the number of illegals in the United States is likely to be closer to 22 million than the oft repeated 11 million figure.
Please take one minute out of your day to watch this. It has subtitles, so there’s no need for sound:
Carlson says that the Dems are soft on illegals, because they want all of them to be able to vote in 2020.
He is not wrong. The Motor Voter programmes run in various states practically guarantee that illegals are registered when they apply for driving licences.
Democrats want to go further now and are pressing for all age-appropriate illegals to be able to vote … in a country they, by law, should not even be in.
Such an act would result in millions more added to the voter rolls in overwhelmingly Democrat states as well as in marginal Republican ones.
The higher the population, the more Electoral College votes — and the more Congressional representation — those states receive. Think of California and New York.
Carlson is correct in saying that the Democrats are using this tactic not because they have any particular feeling for illegals but rather to get the votes they need to stay in power for years to come.
Imagine if there were never another Republican president. Some might cheer at that, but once one party is in power for years and years, corruption is sure to follow, not to mention the strong possibility of totalitarianism.
Conclusion
This man, who is not American, has a warning about the Democrats:
Just in case the lady’s tweet gets deleted, here is his message in full:
I could not agree more with his sense of passion and urgency.
I, too, have come to believe that the United States is in a state of spiritual war.
I pray that America recovers. I also pray that this spiritual war does not spread to other nations. No one can afford its costly consequences.
It never ceases to amaze me how many leftists who support abortion then invoke Holy Scripture to advance other talking points.
Last week, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who received an endorsement from NARAL Pro-Choice America, discussed the illegals coming into the United States from Latin America via Mexico. He cited Matthew 25 as a defence.
On Friday, November 16, Tucker Carlson had left-wing radio host Chris Hahn on his Fox News show. Carlson is a churchgoing Episcopalian. The Daily Caller, which Carlson founded, has more about the segment and Sherrod Brown’s use of Jesus’s words (emphases mine):
āSo, Chris … Sherrod Brown from Ohio, whoās been endorsed by NARAL by the way, is lecturing us on Jesus. Do you think Sherrod Brownās a little bit closer to Jesus than, say, I am?ā Carlson began.
āWell, Matthew 25 applies here, donāt you think? Thatās what he was quoting. We have people who are fleeing for their lives who are in desperate need, who want to come to this country and seek asylum legally, by presenting themselves at the border,ā Hahn responded.
āBefore you roll right into your talking point ā¦ before you get to the script, you didnāt address my question though. Is that the new standard? Do you think itās a fair standard? This is not something that I have introduced into this. This is Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Is lecturing us about how heās on Jesusās team and weāre not, is that a fair form of political discourse?ā Carlson asked.
Hahn responded by saying the Republicans are hypocritical in quoting the Bible, implying that they are hard-hearted people. He told Carlson that they:
ignore the teachings of Christ. Matthew 25 clearly directs us to help those in need.
Carlson asked for specific examples of such people.
Hahn came back with Vice President Mike Pence:
āHow about Mike Pence? Every single day, everything he does, every time Mike Pence talks he invokes Christ, every single time,ā Hahn followed up. āYouāre aware of it but I donāt know that you believe it. Thatās what it says, Tucker. And thatās what Mike Pence pretends to acknowledge, but he doesnāt.ā
Tucker admitted he found Hahn’s take offensive:
Iām trying not to end this interview right now because Iām getting offended.
Tucker then went on to explain that, whatever side of the aisle one is on, we just can’t inject Scripture into every political conversation:
Introducing religious faith, appropriating someone elseās religious faith, by the way, into a conversation about public policy. Do you think thatās a wise thing to do? Do you think if Mike Pence got up and said, āIām for building a wall and Iām quoting this scripture to justify it,ā I know for a fact that I would say, āWhoa, settle down. Itās a public policy question. Itās a multi-ethnic, multi-religious country. Donāt start doing that, itās not a theocracy.ā But youāre saying now that thatās okay.
It’s always okay when the Left — Democrats and the media — do it.
The hypocrisy with pro-abortion people picking and choosing Scripture to suit their political needs is mind-boggling.
The Democrats are hypocrites. They want more illegals only so that they can tip the balance at the ballot box.
Yesterday’s post was about the chilling attacks on Tucker Carlson and his family.
A November 10 article on Breitbart, ‘Tucker Carlson Antifa Riot Mimics Cuban Mob Attacks’, discusses the long-standing tactic of the totalitarian government’s support for terrorising freedom-loving dissidents.
Excerpts follow, emphases mine.
Despite Cuba having been Communist for six decades, this personalised terrorism is still going on:
Pro-democracy and right-leaning political activists, journalists, and artists 90 miles from our shores, fighting for their rights in communist Cuba, have faced similar mob attacks on their homes for years. Unlike the Carlson incident, in Cuba, the government actively organizes the mobs. The riots are so common they have a name:Ā actos de repudio, or āacts of repudiation.ā
In the past several years, since dictator RaĆŗl Castro took over for late dictator brother Fidel, Cuba has endeavored to export the practice ofĀ actos de repudio, attacking the presence of dissidents at international summit events, violently beating them in public on foreign soil, and even using mob behavior to silence American diplomats at the United Nations.
Actos de repudio, the article says, can be defined as follows:
bully mobs [used] to intimidate, instill fear, and to restrict democracy activistās freedom of movement and speech.
In Tucker Carlson’s case, the DC police have had the good sense to term the attack on his home as a hate crime:
According to the official police report, the mob vandalized the Carlson home, driveway, and the car parked there by scrawling various leftist messages all over them. The mob also broke the front door, nearly managing to enter the home to presumably hurt Carlsonās family. Washington, DC, police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Carlson sees this for what it is — restriction on his thoughts and speech:
Carlson accurately described the attack as an attempt to silence his political thoughts in a subsequent interview Thursday night on Fox News.
āThis has a chilling effect on peopleās ability to speak and to think freely. Thatās the point,ā he argued. āItās totalitarian in its intent. We should fight itā …
āWhatās it like to find out that your wife is hiding in the pantry because people are threatening her? I mean, itās upsetting,ā he noted.
Meanwhile, back in Cuba, female churchgoers have been attacked with severe actos de repudio:
With some notable exceptions on the far left, mainstream political observers have condemned the attack as fundamentally anti-American and argued that such mob tyranny is a scary new development in political speech, practically unprecedented. Those who view this as a novel threat have clearly not studied the Ladies in White, a group of pro-democracy peace activists in Cuba who experience some form of this harassment on a weekly basis.
Unlike the Antifa event, the Ladies in White, and in particular their leader Berta Soler, face similar attacks organized and funded by their own government. The women, whose sole act of protest is to attempt to go to Catholic Mass on Sundays, have faced beatings, stoning, tarring at the hands of these mobs.
Here’s a 2016 video of an attack outside the headquarters for the Ladies in White:
The video also shows mobs destroying media equipment.
These mobs attack artists, too:
Below is a mob attack against Tania Bruguera, a Cuban artist who courted the ire of the regime by planning an art installation consisting only of a microphone placed in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana for the use of anyone in the public to say whatever they want. Bruguera has an official Cuban police officer assigned to monitor her at all times.
Cuba began exporting mob violence three years ago:
In 2015, the Cuban government decided to begin exportingĀ actos de repudio after being invited to the Summit of the Americas for the first time. At the time, Latin American leaders like Venezuelan dictator NicolĆ”s Maduro, corrupt Brazilian socialist Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva, and similarly corrupt Argentine former President Cristina FernĆ”ndez de Kirchner hijacked the summit to invite Cuba despite the nation not meeting the Organization of American Statesā democracy requirements.
The Cuban state agents used the invitation to stageĀ actos de repudio in Panama. The agents physically beat a small group of dissidents who gathered to honor Cuban founding father JosĆ© MartĆ in Panama City.
These mobs do not respect human rights or the rule of law, even international law:
In a memorable 2016Ā acto de repudio, a mob made a bonfire out of copies of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a reminder that its ideals do not apply to them.
They also disrupted a discussion of human rights at the UN this year.
Nothing happens to them at home or abroad, so the violence continues.
Frances Martel, the author of the Breitbart article, warns that this is unlikely to be a short-term trend.
Being nice to totalitarian regimes doesn’t help, either:
The extensive, repulsive history of mob attacks in Cuba similar to what Carlson experienced ā and their increased frequency abroad since 2015, when the Obama administration flooded Cuba with foreign investment in return for nothing ā is a reminder that interacting with foreign regimes does not necessarily make them freer. Sometimes, values flow in the opposite direction, resulting in authoritarian minorities in the free country becoming emboldened and infected with the same tactics common in the repressive regime.
How terrible that such violence has been taking root in the United States since 2016, starting with the Trump and other conservative rallies. Now we have mobs attacking media personalities, ICE and who knows what next?
Law enforcement is not doing much to stop it, especially in West Coast cities such as Portland.
It would be a shame if these mobs become commonplace in America.
Tucker Carlson of Fox News has had quite a time of it lately.
So have his family members.
Radical leftists — an ‘Antifa’ element — have verbally attacked his wife and daughter in separate incidents because they oppose his on-air viewpoints, especially on the Latin American caravan.
On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, a group from the US capital — Smash Racism DC — ambushed the Carlson family home:
The Gateway Pundit posted a tweet from Smash Racism DC about making a visit to his home as well as this (bold emphasis in the original, those in purple mine):
The group is threatening Carlson and demanding that he leave town, saying that ātonight, we remind you that you are not safe either.ā
…
The leftists were also chanting, āNo borders! No walls! No USA at all!ā
Smash Racism DC also posted a picture of a sign on Carlsonās door with his address written on it ā which was removed by Twitter after inquiries from journalists. The account remains active however, despite all the threats made on their feed.
The group dispersed a couple minutes after the police arrived. No arrests were made.
According to a source, Carlson has been being harassed so much that he cannot go out to eat or safely use the front entrance at Fox News.
Tonightās incident appears to have been organized by the same group that was behind chasing Senator Ted Cruz out of a restaurant in DC in September.
It is important to press home the point that DC police made no arrests:
The Daily Caller, which Carlson co-founded before he joined Fox News two years ago, had more to report on Smash Racism DC’s ambush. It took place shortly before Carlson was going on air (emphases mine):
A left-wing mob showed up outside Fox News host Tucker Carlsonās house Wednesday evening, posted pictures of his address online and demanded that he flee the city of Washington, D.C.
Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller and host of āTucker Carlson Tonight,ā was at the Fox News studio when the angry crowd showed up outside of his house.
At least one of the protesters went all the way up to Carlsonās front door, where they left a sign with his familyās home address written on it and rang his doorbell. Carlsonās wife Susie was home alone at the time …
āTucker Carlson, you cannot hide from the people you hurt with your rhetoric, your lies, and your hate,ā the group wrote on Twitter, adding the hashtag ā#KnockKnockTucker.ā
…
The left-wing groupās Twitter account was suspended shortly after midnight on Thursday.
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace released a statement Thursday denouncing the mobās actions.
āThe incident that took place at Tuckerās home last night was reprehensible. The violent threats and intimidation tactics toward him and his family are completely unacceptable,ā Scott and Wallace said, adding:
āWe as a nation have become far too intolerant of different points of view. Recent events across our country clearly highlight the need for a more civil, respectful, and inclusive national conversation. Those of us in the media and in politics bear a special obligation to all Americans, to find common ground.ā
A Fox News article explains what happened:
Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” was not home at the time. He said his wife, Susie, was home alone and heard the commotion from the kitchen. She called the police and locked herself into a pantry, he said. His brother — who lives close by — arrived about the same time as law enforcement.
The host said activists rang his doorbell, broke his oak door and one protester was apparently caught on security video mentioning a pipe bomb.
D.C. police did not immediately respond to a Fox News email early Thursday.
Carlson said he was at the Fox News office in Washington working on his opening monologue when neighbors texted him about the commotion outside his home. His wife of 22 years did not contact him because she didnāt want to distract him before he went on air, he said.
The group eventually scattered. It was unclear if there were any arrests. Carlson said the group posted online the home addresses of his brother and his former college roommate, Neil Patel, who co-founded the Daily Caller with Carlson.
Carlson said he was not worried so much for himself as for his family:
āHereās the problem, I have four children,ā he said by phone. āI never thought twice about leaving them home alone, but this is the reaction because this group doesnāt like my TV show.ā
At least Twitter suspended Smash Racism DC’s account early on Thursday, November 8.
SFGate from San Francisco reported on Carlson’s conversation with the Washington Post about the incident:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was at his desk Wednesday evening, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. live show, when he suddenly started receiving multiple text messages …
“I called my wife,” Carlson told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “She had been in the kitchen alone getting ready to go to dinner and she heard pounding on the front door and screaming. … Someone started throwing himself against the front door and actually cracked the front door.”
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Roughly 20 people had gathered outside Carlson’s residence, said Lt. Jon Pongratz with the Metropolitan Police Department of D.C. Authorities received a call at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and responded “within a few minutes,” Pongratz told The Post.
Pongratz said that the police were still outside the Carlson residence hours later and continue to patrol the block in case the protesters return.
SFGate reported the support that journalists who are politically left, right and centre gave the Carlsons.
Carlson also said that:
he went to “great lengths” to keep his home address private because of his family, who were all “very upset” by the protesters. He added that he loves his home and neighborhood and does not want to move.
“They think of Northwest D.C. as a tranquil sanctuary where they know everyone and everyone is nice,” he said. “They think of this as the greatest place in the world.”
Now, Carlson is worried about leaving his family alone at home.
“How can you go out for dinner and leave the kids at home at this point?” he said. “If they’re talking about pipe bombs … how do you live like that?”
He added that he also doesn’t know what he’s going to do about checking the mail. In October, pipe bombs were mailed across the country to high-profile critics of President Trump.
“I probably won’t open another package sent to our house from now on,” Carlson said.
Wednesday night’s events are the latest in a spate of harassment aimed at prominent politicians and media outlets, ranging from being heckled in restaurants to receiving packages containing explosive devices.
While he is no stranger to threats, Carlson said this time things went “too far.”
“I don’t think I should be threatened in our house,” he said. “I think I should fight back, and I plan to.”
He added: “I’m not going to be bullied and intimidated.”
The Gateway Pundit revealed that, in addition to Carlson and his brother Buckley, other conservative journalists have also been doxxed (had sensitive information revealed by a malicious third party):
the addresses of Ann Coulter, Daily Callerās Neil Patel, and Sean Hannity.
The article added:
Someone affiliated with DC Antifa told The Gateway Pundit that the protest at Carlsonās home was ājust the beginning.ā
Tucker told his story to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on November 8. Much of the interview contains the aforementioned information, but Tucker did emphasise that his wife is ‘apolitical’ and said that one never discusses politics in DC, because so many people are friends across the aisle. Tucker, incidentally, was supposed to be enjoying a few days’ holiday. Instead he had to deal with the aftermath of a home ambush. No, it wasn’t a protest. As Tucker said, it was a threat.
Even worse, Tucker told Brian Kilmeade that he thinks one of the culprits could have been a guest on his show:
A few days later, news emerged that one of Tucker’s three daughters had been verbally abused at a DC-area country club in October. This incident involves a man — the alleged verbal abuser — who is a client of Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’s lawyer. Several weeks ago, Carlson dubbed him Creepy Porn Lawyer, a name which has since gone viral.
Avenatti was arrested and later released on November 14 on charges of domestic violence:
But I digress.
Back now to the story about Tucker and his family. On November 10, Breitbart reported (language alert):
A Virginia country club revoked the membership of a man accused of verbally accosting Tucker Carlsonās teenage daughter last month, according to the Fox News Channel host. Conversely, the man referred to as Juan alleges Carlson assaulted him and is purportedly being represented by television lawyer Michael Avenatti.
Carlson provided a lengthy statement to The Hillās JoeĀ Concha Saturday, detailing the eyebrow-raising incident that reportedly involved the unnamedĀ man, Carlson, and two of his children.
āOn October 13, I had dinner with two of my children and some family friends at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia,ā Carlsonās statement begins. āToward the end of the meal, my 19-year-old daughter went to the bathroom with a friend. On their way back through the bar, a middle aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was sitting with Tucker Carlson. My daughter had never seen the man before. She answered: āThatās my dad,ā and pointed to me. The man responded, āAre you Tuckerās whore?ā He then called her a āf*** c***.ā ā
āMy daughter returned to the table in tears. She soon left the table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the bar to confront the man. I followed,ā Carlson continued. āMy son asked the man if heād called his sister a āwhoreā and a āc**t.ā The man admitted he had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine in the manās face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon did.ā
Carlson said he notified the staff atĀ Farmington Country Club immediately following the incident, prompting a three-week investigation by the management. Juanās club membership was annulled last week, the prime-time newsman told Concha.Ā āI love my children. It took enormous self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do,ā added Carlson. āI think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger.ā
Avenatti took to Twitter to refute allegations against his client Juan, who is Latino and gay. Carlson said that:
neither he or his college-aged son assaulted Juan, nor did he know he was Latino or gay. āWhat happened on October 13 has nothing to do with identity politics,ā he said. āIt was a grotesque violation of decency. Iāve never seen anything like it in my life.ā
Responding to Carlsonās statement, Avenatti said the Fox News hostās version of events is a ālie,ā while accusing him of being āintoxicatedā. As pointed out by podcaster Jamie Weinstein, a previous collaborator of Carlson, the newsman doesnāt drink alcohol. The lawyer also alleged Carlsonās son committed āassault and battery.ā
On November 12, The Daily Caller reported that Avenatti’s client Juan is considering suing Carlson.
On November 14, American Thinker revealed that Juan had been on the board of directors for The Women’s Initiative at the time of the country club incident. Oh, the irony! He stood down on November 13:
Hmm. One wonders whether the aforementioned lawsuit will go ahead.
Regardless, Tucker Carlson is a decent man with a decent family. He is actually pretty centrist and somewhat libertarian in his political outlook. Neither he nor his family deserve these horrifying verbal attacks on their privacy. Please keep them in your prayers.
Let’s hope the following video still shows by the time this post appears:
On Thursday, October 18, 2018, Tucker Carlson featured a video of a crazed leftist ripping up Ted Cruz (R-Texas) campaign signs in Houston’s middle class Montrose neighbourhood. The guy was jumping around and screaming directly into the camera.
There is a ‘zombie’ virus infecting raccoons in the US at the moment. Tucker asked whether it made its way to Texas.
Then he discussed the attacks — verbal and physical — on Trump supporters. Dan Bongino, a former NYPD policeman and retired Secret Service agent joined him. Tucker rolled footage of CNN’s discussion of the ‘bullying’ tactics of Trump supporters with mugs that read ‘Liberal Tears’ then showed a video of left-wing violence in Portland, Oregon. The two men wondered how CNN could be complaining about mugs when Antifa are tearing up the streets of a major American city.
Bongino says that the media are complicit in this crazed violence and the attacks on Trump supporters. The chyron at the bottom of that segment reads:
MEDIA: IF YOU DON’T BACK DEMS, YOU’RE EVIL
Seriously, the Dems are unhinged. They don’t mind Antifa. Legislators such as Maxine Waters and Tim Kaine encourage leftists to harass decent Americans minding their own business. The decent Americans’ sin? Supporting President Donald Trump.
This madness has been going on for two-and-a-half years, since Trump was running for president.
It started in Chicago, where Trump’s scheduled rally had to be abandoned in March 2016.
Democrats are the party of crime and crazed violence. Stop voting for them.
