City Journal.

The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill. According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city’s “leadership is in chaos” and “the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000.” The officer said that Chief Best had dispatched high-ranking police officials to the autonomous zone to establish a line of communication, but the officials were immediately sent away by armed paramilitaries at the barricades. “The tide of public opinion is on the side of the activists and they’re pushing the envelope as far as they can,” said the officer. “It’s not hyperbolic to say the endgame is anarchy.”

Politically, the Seattle City Council has already begun to champion the protesters’ demands. Socialist Alternative councilwoman Kshama Sawant declared the takeover a “victory” against “the militarized police force of the political establishment and the capitalist state.” Three councilmembers have signaled support for a 50 percent reduction in the police budget, with additional councilmembers likely to support a similar policy in the coming weeks. Sawant also opened Seattle’s City Hall—which had been closed by the mayor—to protesters, who immediately occupied the building.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone has set a dangerous precedent: armed left-wing activists have asserted their dominance of the streets and established an alternative political authority over a large section of a neighborhood. They have claimed de facto police power over thousands of residents and dozens of businesses—completely outside of the democratic process. In a matter of days, Antifa-affiliated paramilitaries have created a hardened border, established a rudimentary form of government based on principles of intersectional representation, and forcibly removed unfriendly media from the territory.

As I said before, to me this is easy with any real leadership.  Where do I start?

Trespassing, petty larceny, felonious theft, felonious assault, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit crimes, numerous traffic violations, and kidnapping.

But there is no real leadership left.

It just has to do with whose borders, where they are, and who those borders keep out.

So the anarchists are building a… border wall. Okey-dokey. https://t.co/QNTxgVcpHn

— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) June 11, 2020

I think this is actually fairly easy.  If the city decides not to shoot them (which is the approach I would take), they can just cut off power, cordon off the perimeter and disallow supplies, cut internet, cut cell phone service, cut off gas, and cut off water, and as they come out one-by-one, arrest them and put them in jail.  Send the morticians to pick up the remaining bodies of the die-hards.

So either way, shooting them or starving them out, this is easy, and the fact that it hasn’t been done shows that they don’t really want it to end.

They just want to be the police.

Antifa doesn't oppose police. What Antifa, a domestic terrorist organization, opposes is police who are accountable to elected officials and the laws they pass. Antifa's model is the Soviet Stasi of East Berlin: a secret police state run by totalitarians. https://t.co/UOUfiVB2SS

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 10, 2020

Read the whole thread about the things this BLM “cop” is saying he is going to do, and what he’s already done.  I told you this before.

You see, if any in our community really believes that after all of this goes down there will be an end to no-knock raids and police overreach will be reigned in, you are a naive fool.

They intend to evict the few remaining relatively good people left in law enforcement, those who still believe in some semblance of the constitution, replace them with others (MAVNI recruits, La Raza, etc.), and turn the police against you.

That will ensure that (a) you don’t fight back when they confiscate your 401K and retirement accounts, (b) you don’t fight back when they try to confiscate your weapons, (c) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill to tax inheritance, (d) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill for reparations, and (e) you don’t fight back when they socialize medicine.

Do you see?  You didn’t really believe any of this was about the cops, did you?  Tell me you saw through all of this?

And while we’re at it, BLM believes in the following.

“Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.”

They want your wealth.  It doesn’t belong to God, or to you, or to your family.  They don’t believe that “The good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” To them, the only good is in them taking what you have for you and your family.

They also believe in gun control.  Not for them – for you.  You see, they will be the police, you the servant.

Got it now?

This makes an interesting picture, yes?

In a display of public unity with ‘The Movement’ writ large, FBI officials took a knee to declare their woke allegiance with the protesting mobs.  With that visible display we now have a better understanding of the motives behind a history of FBI failures.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an assembly of political grievance activists that includes the Nation of Islam (Farrakhan) and the New Black Panther Party (NBPP).  The overall network is currently working in coordination with the ultra-violent Antifa.

When the FBI takes a knee to support BLM they are openly aligning with Antifa and the violent advocacy it carries …

As for me and my house, we bow our knee only to King Jesus, the maker of heaven and earth.  Via David Codrea, I see that someone else thinks the same way.  There are a few of us left out there.

A Georgia law enforcement officer refused to kneel for protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Hartwell, Georgia on Sunday.

Instead, Georgia State Trooper O’Neal Saddler was recorded telling a female protester that he only kneels “for one person, and that’s God.”

John Guandolo (via newsletter).

Friends, things are moving quickly right now and our enemies are out maneuvering the police, military, and federal agencies.  Truthfully, its not even a contest.  Our government at the local, state, and federal level is an embarrassment.  I am sending this quick update to help you put everything you are witnessing into a framework you can understand and by which, I hope, make thoughtful decisions on what is best for you and your family.  Remember this is a war of narratives.  The media is making everything appear worse than it is because the goal is to create chaos so that Americans demand ORDER.  Communists and jihadis know how to bring order to a community, but that order comes with slavery, depravity, and poverty.   Please do not make the mistake of thinking “It can’t happen here” because it IS happening here.  Here are a few things you must know when explaining the danger of where we are to others:

1.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a COMMUNIST organization.  From our colleague Trevor Loudon, who is one of the best resources for communist networks in the U.S. has this to say about ongoing events:  “Two pro-China communist parties – Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and Liberation Road are playing leading roles in coordinating the often-violent protests now occurring across the United States.”  The 3 founders of BLM are Patrise Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza.  These women hold or have held positions inside numerous FRSO organizations.  Alicia Garza has held executive leadership positions in NDWA, POWER, SOUL, and RTTC.  BLM was founded by Marxists/communists born from the leading communist organization in America today – Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

2.  The violent riots are all about control of the state and power.  The riots in the U.S. were never “peaceful protests” which were “hijacked” and they have nothing to do with a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.  The riots have always been communist led riots – Black Lives Matter – working with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups like Hamas doing business as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).  Other MB groups like ISNA and ICNA are also working with the communists at the ground level.  The Communist/Islamic Counter-States were waiting for a flash point to use to launch their offensive.  The incident in MN provided that.

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5.  The Brown Shirts will be replaced by the Black Shirts.  Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs are today’s “brown shirts.”  They are the leading edge of the violent revolution in America.  As the communist/jihadi movements advance, there will come a time they will need to appear as if they are normalizing their activities.  The Brown Shirts (Antifa/BLM) will be eliminated by the Black Shirts, who most likely will be the jihadis as the jihadis prepare to take over.

6.  Believe what you are seeing.  In Minnesota, the Minneapolis City Council is poised to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.  Jihadi Attorney General in MN is Keith Ellision.  If the police department is defunded and shut down, a “civil security” group will be formed that will, initially, have a happy face on it.  Rapidly, however, it will become an overtly sharia-police force and Minnesota will become an Islamic State under the control of Keith Ellison.

This analysis dovetails with George Webb’s analysis of the kingpin role of Keith Ellison in all of this.

Idaho.

Upon rumor that violent protestors and rioters were considering descending upon Coeur d’ Alene, a small city in Idaho with a population of about 45,000, with intent to loot, vandalize, and otherwise cause unrest, the local militia men and women took action. Gearing up, they descended upon the downtown core to guard businesses and major intersections. They came out in mass, hundreds of people who were almost all armed, to ensure that the citizenry would be kept safe.

Some store owners were boarding up their windows in preparation of Antifa, but many of them carried on, as usual, comforted by the armed sentinels that stood guard.

Thankfully, the evening was uneventful, with at least one Law Enforcement officer allegedly saying that the intel was good and that the groups intent on causing harm backed down once they heard of the deployment.

There are more pictures at the link.

Next up Boiling Springs, South Carolina.  Of all places on earth where Antifa wouldn’t feel welcome, it has to be Boiling Springs, South Carolina.

Roughly 100 protesters slowed traffic Friday evening on Highway 9 in Boiling Springs as they marched in a cluster from the Zaxby’s to the Walmart Supercenter.

Accompanied in the front and the rear by the flashing lights of sheriff’s patrol cars, many of them covered a distance of about 6 miles on foot with signs held high.

Among the crowd, Thomas Broome held a sign that read: “Protect black lives the way you would protect this dog.”

His dog, Maya, stood at his feet wearing a sign around her neck: “Black Dogs Matter.”

At one point, a motorist behind the wheel of a pickup truck rolled down his window and shouted profanity at the group as he drove by.

What the news report didn’t say, that my intel source does, is that business owners were lined up in front of their places of business armed.

“Practice Things Like an Eye Gouge, it Takes Very Little Pressure to Injure Someone’s Eyes.”  Swell folks, they are.

I’ll tell you what though.  That boy had better not go back around those people.  His life will be in danger if he does.

This is as good an afteraction report as you’ll find anywhere on what happened at Charlottesville, Virginia.  This is an afteraction report from Seattle, and this is a report from Durham.

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.

Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the statue of a Confederate soldier and attached a rope around the statue.

Moments later, the crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell.  One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.

Durham police later said they monitored the protests to make sure they were “safe” but did not interfere with the statue toppling because it happened on county property.

“Because this incident occurred on county property, where county law enforcement officials were staffed, no arrests were made by DPD officers,” Durham Police spokesman Wil Glenn said in a statement.

Durham County Sheriff’s deputies videotaped the statue being brought down — but didn’t stop it from happening.

After toppling the statue, the protesters started marching. They blocked traffic with authorities trying to stay ahead of them. The protesters made their way down East Main Street to the site of the new Durham Police Department.

Watch the video.  I suspect that when all is said and done, it will be learned that fat girl and metrosexual boy were paid protesters funded by George Soros because they are too stupid to find work any other way.

We already know that many, if not most of the protesters at Charlottesville, were in the employ of Soros, and one was clearly a high level DNC operative.

Attempts to blame guns and open carry fell flat today given that there was no violence perpetrated by anyone except Antifa.  I said very little about what McAuliffe said about the event, except to quote him.

You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army,” he added. “I was just talking to the State Police upstairs; they had better equipment than our State Police had,” he said, referring to the militia members. “And yet not a shot was fired, zero property damage.”

To which I said, “Good for you.  Good job, boys.”  Read between the lines here.  McAuliffe is clearly a shill, and I’ve always thought of him as a rather dense one at that.  He wanted to blame the right, and wanted to blame guns more than anything else.

But he couldn’t, and he knew it.  He knew that as soon as he did so, he would be proven wrong by all of the video, afteraction reports and eyewitness accounts, some by the very police he told to stand down.  He couldn’t blame the militia and had to stipulate that there was no property damage.

People damage – well, that’s another story.  The various militia groups who marched that day did a great job showing restraint, and frankly I would have preferred to see more aggression.  I would have preferred to see at least the use of bear spray on the Antifa rioters.  So if each and every militia member wasn’t carrying and didn’t deploy bear spray on an Antifa rioter, I don’t understand why.

Furthermore, when someone like that attacks you, your life is in danger, regardless of the kinds of weapons employed.  Fists can kill.  Sooner or later, guns will have to be used in the defense of life and property.  As Matt Bracken says, there will be shooting.  Carbines, up until now unloaded and for show, will be aimed, and triggers will be pulled.  You know it’s going to happen sooner or later.

These are the beginning stages of the great American split, and let’s pray that it is only a split into multiple countries instead of a civil war.

I will detail my thoughts on Robert E. Lee later.  I am not as big of a fan of his leadership as many, and see him and his horrible tactical decisions at Gettysburg as one of the primary reasons for the loss of the South in the war between the states.  The point of all of this is not what I or you think about Lee, it’s what we think about the erasure of our heritage.