Signs Of Moral Cowardice Among The Rulers

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 5 months ago

City Journal.

On June 1, Fishtown made national headlines when a group of men carrying baseball bats and clubs opted to protect their neighborhood from the looters and anarchists who had trashed Center City. This vigilante group emerged following three days of media reporting that the “protest” was moving into neighborhoods like Germantown, Kensington, and West Philadelphia, along with reports of fires, blown-up ATM machines, blocked traffic, burned buildings, and threats of more violence. For three days, Philadelphians watched scenes of police officers running from rioters as patrol cars were destroyed or set on fire. One report even showed police officers scattering out of the looters’ way, appearing frightened.

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Kenney, relatively distant as the city burned, suddenly emerged from his City Hall bunker and issued a statement. “We do not condone vigilantism,” he said. “We understand that communities desire to protect their neighborhood, and if they want to do that in peace, we would allow it, regardless of neighborhood. But armed vigilantism will not be tolerated moving forward. I am glad police moved in to eventually disperse the group, but I am not happy about how long it took.” The district attorney, Larry Krasner, concurred, describing the videos of men with bats as “disgusting,” though he never alluded to the looters in the same vein.

The chief of police runs from rioters, and finds patriots disgusting.  These are the signs of the times – they will not end well.

Ideological bankruptcy and moral cowardice is the only common element, and the common end will be submission and ultimately death.

The communist revolution is well under way.


Comments

  1. On June 10, 2020 at 12:04 am, TC said:

    No one has any idea how bad this is going to be. The Balkan Wars will have nothing on this.

  2. On June 10, 2020 at 8:49 am, Fred said:

    ““We understand that communities desire to protect their neighborhood, and if they want to do that in peace, we would allow it…”

    That right there is the funniest thing I’ve read all year. The guy is completely disconnected from reality. He doesn’t know what words mean. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

  3. On June 10, 2020 at 8:59 am, penses said:

    Racism.

    This wasn’t even a word until the commies invented it back in the ’30s

    Not the Babylon Bee.

    ” Merriam Webster’s dictionary is changing the definition of racism after a woman complained about it.” @MarkDice informationliberation.com

  4. On June 10, 2020 at 9:04 am, ragman said:

    Antifa and other assorted communists have taken over part of downtown Seattle. Next stop Somalia as the US descends into the depths of the Twilight Zone.

  5. On June 10, 2020 at 9:54 am, billrla said:

    The internet has eliminated the need for informants.

  6. On June 10, 2020 at 11:31 am, Elmo said:

    Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner was elected courtesy $1.7 million of Soros money. Of course he prefers looters with hammers and Molotov cocktails to citizens defending their property and lives with baseball bats.

  7. On June 10, 2020 at 5:58 pm, Randolph Scott said:

    Mr. district atty… at the appropriate time they will be looking for people like you.

  8. On June 10, 2020 at 6:55 pm, penses said:

    The purge is on. The Orcs are on the move.

    “In Clarksdale, Mississippi, a nurse named Monie Brown was fired from her job at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center for referring to the looters and lynch mobs as thugs in a now deleted Facebook post.

    “Religious social media personality Timothy Gordon was terminated from his theology teaching position by Catholic clerics at Garces Memorial High School after criticizing the Black Lives Matter platform as anti-family and violent. While Gordon has yet to apologize, he made sure to stress that “there is no place for racism” in the “new American right.”

    “A Southern Baptist figure, Reagan Escude, was fired by her local employer in Natchitoches, Louisiana for making a video criticizing left-wing extremists from a biblical perspective.

    “These are high profile cases the media has reported on, but working class white people are being hit especially hard. The purge is thorough and ruthless, and no white target is being spared. Ray Robles King, the father of a 2-year-old girl currently battling cancer, was fired by his boss at American Ironworks & Erectors for posting a video critical of the criminals burning down our cities.

    “The few institutions white people have until now relied on to preserve their liberty, dignity and physical safety are on the side of the black and anarchist extremists: the Republican party, virtually all the churches, even the military and police.

    “Despite potentially exculpatory evidence in George Floyd’s autopsy, District Court Judge Jeannice Reding raised accused police officer Derek Chauvin’s bail from $750,000 to $1.25 million. Judge Reding is a lesbian and a gay activist in the Minnesota Lavender Bar Association, making a fair trial unlikely.

    “It is now a de facto crime for a person of European descent to publicly give an opinion that contradicts the neo-liberal narrative on “systematic racism.”

    “The biggest losers during this seismic shift in American history are the conservative institutions, who have been thoroughly discredited in the eyes of their overwhelmingly white audience.

    “In a recent piece on The American Conservative, veteran conservative columnist Robert W. Merry threw his hands up in impotence.

    “When the political reaction comes, as it inevitably will, it will come on little cat feet. And the nation’s elites, secure in the thought that the systemic racism charge has worked brilliantly in intimidating any lingering dissenters into submission, won’t see it coming.” wrote Merry.

    “On Trump, he said “It’s an open question whether this can help Donald Trump in November. His is a failed presidency, and the collective electorate seldom rewards failed presidencies with retention in office.”

    “He finished his piece with an ominous warning to other gatekeepers in Washington “…down the road, as the issue intensifies and as white Americans feel increasingly beleaguered by the left’s identity politics and disdain for Middle America, as more demonstrations and riots ensue with more destructive force, a counter-movement will emerge. It likely will approach the body politic as quietly as Sandberg’s fog. But, once it arrives, it won’t stay quiet for long.”

    “In Weimerica, white depoliticization is no longer an option.”–nationaljustice.com

    NACAR will not allow Confederate Battle Flags at the races per their “one” black driver (wears BLM t’s) and zero black fans. Not that I give a hoot. I quit going to “stock car” races long ago.

  9. On June 10, 2020 at 9:21 pm, penses said:

    Speaking of Somalia…the Seattle (Mogadishu) Autonomous Zone has a warlord. Raz Simone. Dreds and a rap sheet. Armed and dangerous. The power vacuum has been filled. I’m sure the soyboys won’t mind. They were asking for people with guns. They got their wish. Hope they brought plenty of vasoline.

  10. On June 11, 2020 at 7:21 am, Todd said:

    Rioters = just, moral
    Citizens defending themselves and their neighbors = Disgusting

    So, it’s control they care about, and absolutely nothing else.

  11. On June 11, 2020 at 7:57 am, penses said:

    “White supremacists and racist domestic terrorists pose the largest threat of violence in the United States amid nationwide protests across the country, according to a new intelligence bulletin.

    “The bulletin — which was sent to local law enforcement by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center and reported by ABC News — warns of threats by left-wing and anarchist groups as well.

    “But it barely mentions Antifa as a potential violent group — though federal lawmakers have called for the loosely affiliated movement to be labeled a terror group amid nationwide protests against police brutality.

    “We assess the greatest threat of lethal violence continues to emanate from lone offenders with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideologies and [domestic violent extremists] with personalized ideologies,” the bulletin states, according to ABC News.”–NYPost

  12. On June 11, 2020 at 8:38 am, penses said:

    If anyone is thinking of counting on the military you need to read this.

    “A leading Democratic candidate in a closely watched House race brushed off looting and arson that occurred during nationwide unrest during protests about racism and police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd.

    “What the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation,” retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson said during a live digital event on Tuesday, shown in a clip obtained by the Washington Examiner.

    “I don’t think people want me to say that,” added Olson, a Democratic candidate in Texas’s 24th Congressional District, which covers much of the suburban area in between Fort Worth and Dallas.

    “Olson, 62, made the comment during a several-minute answer to a question about what she thought about far-left calls to disband or defund police departments.”–The Washington Examiner

    From the pics I couldn’t tell if she was a real woman or a tranny. Typical example of the converged military elite.

  13. On June 11, 2020 at 12:56 pm, penses said:

    “I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

    General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff virtue signaled graduates at the National Defense University on Thursday morning:

    “As senior leaders everything you do will be closely watched and I am not immune. As many of you saw the result of that photograph of me at Lafayette Square last week that sparked a debate of the role of the military in civil society. I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”

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