Via David Codrea (see his post for additional comments).

Portland: A man accused of trying to run over protesters crashed his vehicle. BLM & Antifa militants then pull him from the car and violently assault him. pic.twitter.com/DiUbV9Mcy5

— Kalen From Scriberr (@FromKalen) August 17, 2020

So I feel it’s time to remember Herschel’s Dictum.  It’s so important that it bears repeating.

“There aren’t too many human interaction problems that can’t be fixed with a .45 ACP 230-grain fat-boy.”

Michael Yon has told me that he is heading back to the states from Thailand to help cover current events.  This is good, as Michael will no doubt be boots on the ground.  He will get first hand pictures, video and reports of what is happening in Portland, Seattle, Austin, and the other hell holes in America.

Andy Ngo is about the only reporter who is providing accurate, good, informative and honest reporting of Antifa and BLM.  The tactics in use by Antifa/BLM are more well-rehearsed than just several years ago, including better communications, leadership, the use of green light lasers (I have thoughts on amelioration of that threat), the use of hammers and baseball bats, breaking windows, blocking roadways and means of egress, boxing in and attacking cars, and on the list could go.

The newly elected Portland DA is aligned with Antifa, and said so himself.  The Portland and Seattle city councils and mayors are aligned with Antifa/BLM, as is the case in Austin.  The politicians (and by extension, the police) are protecting Antifa.  The squad of communists in the House is calling for unrest in the streets.

To a large degree, they have been protected and coddled.  Andy Ngo points out that as soon as charged by police, the Antifa crowds evaporate (see also this post).  Several misguided Antifa folks thought they would crash the biker rally at Sturgis.  This was a mistake, and were it not for the police, those folks might have been killed.

This protection and coddling will redound to much difficulty and perhaps bloodshed in the coming days.  As Antifa presses out into the suburbs of America, bringing their tactics with them of busting windows, burning houses, threatening women and children, millions of homeowners with firearms will return the threat in kind.

By protecting, encouraging and coddling Antifa/BLM at the present rather than shutting it down, the pols are simply ensuring the coming bloodshed.  Maybe that’s what they want to see.

The Post Millennial.

Newly-elected District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who refuses to prosecute Portland rioters, admits he is “old buddies” with an Antifa militant campaigning to defund the police, abolish prisons, and demand reparations.

The last tweet from @DAMikeSchmidt, the new DA who isn’t prosecuting Portland rioters, is a tweet promoting an interview w/his “buddy,” a militant antifa activist. His friend is part of campaign by communist Angela Davis to defund police, abolish prisons & demand reparations. pic.twitter.com/uWHpAxhJn0

“Just before I was sworn in as DA, I sat down with an old buddy of mine, @AWKWORDrap, for an interview about my priorities as District Attorney and rethinking what public safety means,” Schmidt tweeted.

The hour-long Jul. 21 interview with Schmidt is a first in the series of “social justice leaders” features conducted by a self-described “Anti-Fascist” and “old time buddy” of Schmidt’s, social media personality Awkword.

Awkword leads the Ten Demands for Justice movement, “a roadmap for the defunding and then full abolition of police and prisons.”

Actually, I have to admit here that I have something in common with Antifa.  I don’t believe in the prison system either.  But something tells me they and I don’t see eye to eye on this.

As I’ve stated before, I believe in the Biblical concept of restitution and retribution.  If someone commits a crime worthy of death, he is to be executed.  If someone steals from you, he is to become your slave until it is paid back in multiples.  So I believe in slavery because the Bible does.  God believes in property rights.  There is no such thing as a crime against society.  All crimes are against specific persons.

As to the new Portland DA, I don’t really care that much.  It’s sad, indeed, that so many Portland residents are having to either live through this or move.  But the fact is that you voted on each and every council member, the mayor, and the DA.  It says so right there in the article.  “Newly elected.”  I didn’t make that up.

So things in Portland (and Seattle for that matter) are like they are because you, the citizens of Portland (and Seattle), want them to be that way.  You’ve said so many times.  Who am I to intervene in your knowing and intentional self destruction?

Ammoland.

While members of the group tried to redirect traffic, a driver in a blue truck revved the engine, sending protesters scrambling to the sidewalk. One protester, who only identified himself as “Icon,” pulled a gun on the driver.

“I was scared he was going to kill me,” he said. “I stepped in front of a little girl when he revved his engine, but, yes, I absolutely drew a gun to defend myself.”

We covered this and you saw the video.

First of all, he’s lying.  He didn’t step in front to protect anyone.  Second, notice how light becomes darkness and darkness becomes light.

The driver is the perpetrator of the crime according to him.  It’s not him blocking traffic without an assembly permit, it’s some guy trying to get to work or get home.

The truth doesn’t matter to them.  Their heart is darkness.

Listen to her.  “It’s a revolution … hehe.”

Yea.  Until a 5.56mm round explodes your head, little girl.  I repeat.  Hundreds of millions of guns, billions of rounds of ammunition.  It hasn’t even really started yet.  These are just the skirmishes.

Marauding antifa black bloc in Seattle smash up property as they march around the city. People watch in disbelief. No police. #SeattleRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/XYXkBFZZwc

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 15, 2020

Glenn Reynolds writes at Instapundit:

MOLON LABE, MOTHERF*CKERS: Seattle BLM protesters to strangers: ‘Give up your house. Give black people back their homes.’

Also, thanks for recruiting Trump voters. Your outreach is appreciated.

I told y’all this wasn’t about police.  It never was.  Antifa/BLM want to be the police.  They want your stuff.  All of it.  It’s a Bolshevik revolution.

Think of it and treat it as such.

This is key.  Ronald McDonald houses are where very sick children go – sometimes receiving potentially life saving chemotherapy for cancer, always sickening, sometimes painful – to be able to be with their families while being treated.  It’s a good and wonderful thing for both the children and parents.

This news comes to us from the hellhole of Chicago.

The Ronald McDonald House in Chicago was vandalized during looting early Monday morning while families and their sick children huddled inside, the charity said Tuesday.

The Ronald McDonald House in the Streeterville neighborhood of the city’s Near North Side provides support for sick children and their families while the child receives medical treatment at nearby Lurie Children’s Hospital.

The charity said more than 30 families and their sick children were sleeping inside when the looters, who had taken over downtown, ransacking stores and vandalizing properties, started attacking the building.

“[We were] very concerned there was a lot of activity right in front of the house, people making choices that could put them at risk and put our families at risk, so the staff was frightened,” Lisa Mitchell, of Ronald McDonald House Charities, told ABC 7 Chicago.

“They are already in a really, really difficult spot,” she said of the families. “Having this kind of additional stress and worry about getting to and from the hospital even though we are five blocks away because of safety concerns is just doubling the strain.”

The building was placed on lockdown during the commotion, CBS Chicago reported. Several windows on the front of the building were smashed, and the front door had to be boarded up. No damage was caused to the inside of the house and no one was injured.

The author at Legal Insurrection, Kemberlee Kaye, writes “We have such big love for the Ronald McDonald House. When Baby Walt was hospitalized, the Ronald McDonald house was there for us. They provided encouragement, kindness, and accommodations, allowing us to spend the night on the same floor as our baby. We often opted to head home as we lived close and their rooms were almost always full (we thought it better to leave rooms for out of town parents), but on nights there was availability, we stayed. It was a tremendous comfort to be able to walk down the hall and see our baby at any point in the night instead of being at home with his empty bed.

Attacking a Ronald McDonald House is truly unconscionable.”

It’s because their conscience has been seared as Paul discusses in Romans Chapter 1.  The ridiculous thing is that if the police and politicians would stand back and let the unorganized militia tackle this problem, Antifa and BLM riots would be finished within a week, never to return.

But the pols are on the side of Antifa and BLM, and the rest of America doesn’t have the stomach for what must be done.  Not yet, it doesn’t.

The people of Antifa and BLM are awful, horrible, terrible, loathsome, abhorrent, dreadful people, each and every one of them.  I’ll say the same thing to them as I do to cops who let tyranny go on under their watch because of the “thin blue line.”

If there are BLM protesters who wouldn’t do such things, that’s too bad.  They are associated with people who do, and that goes down to their shame.  God will judge them for not just the violence, but their associations as well.  These rioters should have been shot dead for potential threat to peaceable men, women, and sick children.  They are doing Lucifer’s work.  If the pols won’t let the police do it, they should take a step back and let the militia do it.  Thus the communist revolution would end.

Via David Codrea, this article by NC Scout at American Partisan is bracing.

BREAKING late Sunday – We’ve just learned that Antifa terrorist groups in Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon have received a large cache of weapons that are being handed to them in preparation for a coordinated, multi-city uprising. Dubbed the “TET Offensive” by Dave Hodges (The Commonsense Show), this planned multi-city attack looks likely to take place before the coming election, as anti-American forces now realize Joe Biden cannot win. So their new goal is to unleash so much chaos across America that elections must be suspended, allowing the Marxist media to roll out its “Trump is a dictator” narrative.

This new delivery of weapons to Antifa forces on or around August 9th has been confirmed by reliable sources. It is consistent with previous announcements by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) describing government seizures of full-auto weapons parts and illegal suppressors that were intercepted during shipment from communist China to several U.S. cities, including Detroit MI, Louisville KY, and Melbourne FL.

Natural News previously reported that the corrupt government of California was storing weapons for Antifa terrorists in the East End Complex Capitol building in Sacramento, at Block 174.

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Why so many battlefield weapons? Because Antifa and BLM aren’t “peaceful protesters;” they’re radical revolutionary groups that plan to carry out mass killings to achieve their political goals of overthrowing the United States of America. Matt Bracken at AmericanPartisan.org writes that Antifa and BLM are simply cover names for the real organization behind all this: The “Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA,” which has long planned a guerrilla warfare urban uprising in an attempt to overthrow the United States of America.

[ … ]

As we have previously reported, reliable intel reveals that Black Lives Matter terror cells are going to carry out “armed flash mob” killing sprees, using weapons purchased from the hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate donations that have been funneled to the terrorist group via the Black Lives Matter media propaganda. These armed flash mob killings appear to be imminent.

[ … ]

We have also learned over the last few weeks that Antifa has recruited UPS drivers to snap photos of delivery address tags of residential packages suspected of containing ammunition or gun parts. Antifa organizers are using these photos to assemble “hit lists” of private residential homes to assault in order to acquire new supplies of firearms and ammunition.

We have also confirmed that Palmetto State Armory, one of the nation’s largest shippers of firearms parts, is now covering their cardboard boxes with plain white wrapping in order to conceal their own retail name, most likely because UPS employees are also stealing firearms parts from PSA and similar retailers. The ATF has made several arrests in the last few months of UPS employees stealing firearms during shipment.

There are pictures at the link.  As a related item, Andy Ngo reports that Antifa communists in Portland are well funded and backed by powerful people.

Antifa rioters in north Portland have access to more than $1.3m in bail money, as well as pro bono lawyers. This is one reason even the extremely violent suspects get released so quickly to riot again.

The communist revolution, well underway in America, is well funded and well resourced.  This isn’t some sort of “worker” rebellion.  These are unemployed revolutionaries funded by bankers and other rich men and women intent on the overthrow of America.

The ridiculous thing about all of this is that if the police would back off and get out of the way, American patriots could put an end to this in under one week.  But they won’t.  They’ll continue to protect the revolutionaries just as ordered by their politicians.

They can riot, destroy, burn, loot, assault and brandish and threaten with impunity, while peaceable men and women would be arrested, charged and imprisoned for such acts.

And for the record, George Webb brought up the stockpiling of weapons in certain locations over a month ago now over YouTube.  He knows some of the locations.

Listen up, LEOs.  Also, listen up “journalists” everywhere.  I’ve seen ridiculous discussions everywhere about open carry and the alleged “difficulty” of ascertaining whether that is brandishing or “carrying to the terror of the public.”

Open carry is just open carry.  It isn’t brandishing.  It isn’t carrying to the “terror of the public.”  This example below is brandishing and carrying to the terror of the public.

Open carry is most often engaged by patriots or people who just want self protection and don’t want to stick a gun into their pants.

Below you’ll see an example of brandishing, and that crime is being committed by communists.  But it’s all okay, since they are, you know, communists, and most journalists are communists.  And most LEOs just don’t care about protection for anyone but themselves and the communists.

The sad part is that if I had been the driver, I would have simply found another way to my destination rather trying to go through the hoard of communists.  I have no fear of the communists, but I do care what the state does to me given that they have the power of the pols and courts behind them.

Isn’t that a sad commentary, and doesn’t that say a lot about the state of the state?

NBC News.

The threat of terrorism — particularly from the far right — should be a major concern for governments on both sides of the Atlantic as coronavirus restrictions continue to ease, according to multiple experts and former law enforcement officials who have experience monitoring violent extremist activity.

High unemployment levels due to the pandemic, poor economic prospects and the spread of disinformation through the internet and social media could accelerate radicalization, they said.

And after a major drive by law enforcement agencies to disrupt the organizing potential of violent Islamist movements in the United States and in Europe, where hundreds of people have returned from the battlefields in Iraq and Syria, recent analysis suggests far-right groups now pose the most significant threat to public safety.

“We see an increasing percentage of plots and attacks in the United States shifting over the past couple of years from jihadist motivations, increasingly, to far-right activity,” said Seth Jones, who directs the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

Jones defined right-wing extremists as “sub-national or non-state entities” with goals that could include ethnic or racial supremacy. They can also be marked by anger against specific policies like abortion rights and government authority, as well as hatred toward women, or they may be members of the “involuntary celibate,” or “incel,” movement.

A report he co-authored recorded 14 terrorist incidents, including attacks and disrupted plots, from Jan. 1 to May 8. Thirteen of them were classified as right-wing, and the other was recorded as being religiously motivated in the context of jihadism.

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“There is a growing trend of right-wing extremism in the U.K., but it is not as significant as the rising right-wing extremism in America,” said retired Maj. Gen. Clive Chapman, the former head of counterterrorism for Britain’s Defense Ministry.

So NBC News managed to cobble together several crackpot analysts to say that the right wing in America is the greatest threat to national security today.

In a time when Antifa/BLM communist insurgency is involved in blinding federal agents with green light lasers, trying to blind legitimate reporters with green light lasers, running through cities pointing rifles at people, blocking traffic, committing arson, pulling people out of cars to beat them for no reason except to perpetrate terror, shooting each other, destroying property, stealing products and goods, trafficking in weapons, threatening to shoot people from rooftops, trespassing and threatening to kill innocent people, declaring white men to be the common enemy, attacking churches, unprovoked shooting at motorists, and conspiring to interfere with the enforcement of the law, the only thing Seth Jones and his ilk can point to is … right wing extremism.  Whatever that is.

What color is the sky in your world, Seth?

Oh, I suppose “the phone call” came in to Seth.  He had to pen some idiotic missive to detract attention from Antifa/BLM.  How much did you get paid for this claptrap, Seth?  What does the deep state have on you, Seth?  Were you embarrassed when you looked back on what you wrote, Seth?