Nolte: Democrat-Run Cities Are Doomed
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Things will someday get better. This left-wing moral panic will pass. Just not anytime soon. And not before things get worse — most especially in Democrat-run cities.
Please do not fool yourself into believing the rioting and mayhem and blacklisting and canceling will quickly burn itself out. It won’t. The radical left is emboldened, and when the radical left is emboldened, cities burn, violent crime explodes, good men die, people and content are disappeared and blacklisted, and human rights are violated — all as the corporate media propagandize these obscenities as progress and virtuous.
As I wrote earlier, the “Woke Taliban are literally toppling statues, literally rewriting history, literally creating their own caliphate, literally renaming streets, literally forcing people to their knees,” and literally blacklisting and desecrating art.
And they are just getting started…
But it is in the Democrat-run cities where things are going to get especially awful.
We are already seeing this play out in Seattle, where the left-wing terrorist group Black Lives Matter have established their own caliphate or confederacy.
With the help of a city council member, Black Lives Matter briefly took over Seattle’s City Hall and have now created a permanent Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a six-block zone blocked off by barricades and signs that read, “You are now leaving the USA.”
The police are banned from this zone and have, at least for now, agreed to abandon the area to armed protesters and terrorists.
Within this six block area are 500 residential homes.
It will only be a matter of time before criminals prey on these helpless residents.
Freedom is dead in this zone. Just try wearing a MAGA hat or hanging a Confederate flag or watching The Jeffersons where everyone can see you. Just try questioning or challenging your new overseers…
This is a caliphate.
So how was this allowed to happen…?
In a word: Weakness.
Few mayors have sought to appease the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter more than Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Weakness not only invites aggression, it also increases demands for fealty. The terrorists who took over city hall and those six blocks are holding Durkan’s resignation as a form of ransom.
Whatever her shortcomings, she was legally elected by the people of Seattle. But the Woke Taliban want her gone, and now they have essentially recalled her by creating their caliphate.
As we have seen over the past two weeks, weakness is a problem in all of these Democrat-run cities. Another problem is that Democrat politicians cannot defy the monsters they created without being devoured by them. The bind they are in, and by extension the bind they have put their city residents in, is that if you defy the Woke Taliban, you will be attacked as a racist and find yourself under fire by a corporate media that has also been taken over by the Woke Taliban.
In other words, you can either abolish, defund, and otherwise weaken police protections, or you will be voted out of office, recalled, or worse… Your city will be relentlessly besieged with disruptive protests and riots: blocked traffic, damaged property — the extortion of chaos and mayhem.
Of course, these Democrats will give in and are already giving in. Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, and a host of Democrat-run cities have already agreed to abolish, defund, or otherwise weaken the police — even though there is no question this will lead to a dramatic increase in every imaginable crime, including rape, murder, armed robbery… Street gangs and cartels will again own streets.
There is no way out for Democrats.
And there is no way out for the idiots who live in these cities and vote for Democrats.
You can either weaken the police and suffer through the increase in violent crime and lawlessness that will follow, or you can subject your city to the unceasing disruption of protests and riots.
Of course, Democrat politicians could do the right thing and uphold the law, but they are not capable of that… They are almost all radicals themselves, and they want to remain in power…
So what does this mean for the average citizen in Democrat-run cities…?
In a word: blight.
The return of urban blight.
Dirty streets. Crime. Collapsing property rates. Boarded up storefronts. High taxes. Homeless. Terrible schools. Living in fear. Bars on windows.
We tried to warn you.
But you idiot Democrats still voted to make a communist the mayor of New York, an appeaser the mayor of Seattle, and an open Antifa supporter the attorney general of Minnesota.
You get what you vote for, and Democrats are about to get exactly what they deserve…
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Shootings surged and murders were up over 100 percent in New York City last week as protesters flooded the streets, along with rioters who shattered windows and destroyed property.
The New York Post reports there were 13 murders from Monday, June 1, 2020, to Sunday night, June 7, 2020. There were five murders during that same time period in 2019.
Moreover, there were 40 shootings in NYC from June 1 to June 7, 2020. In 2019 “there were 24 shootings.”
The Post reported, “The increase in violence came as demonstrators marched city streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.”
The paper described the majority of protests as “peaceful,” but noted peaceful protesters were, at times, “overshadowed by looting and the destruction of stores in several boroughs.”
On June 9, 2020, Breitbart News reported Los Angeles witnessed a 250 percent surge in murders and a 56 percent increase in shooting victims during protest week.
The surge of violence in Los Angeles was mirrored by shootings and murders in other Democrat-controlled cities around the country.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
ALL DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CITIES ARE IN MELTDOWN WITH THE WORST YET TO COME!
Los Angeles: Homicides Soared 250%, Shootings 56%, During Protest Week
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Homicides rose by 250% in Los Angeles, and the number of shooting victims rose by 56%, during the week ending June 6, according to the Los Angeles Police Department — the same week as the Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
The surge in deadly crimes in L.A. mirrored similar reports elsewhere in the country for the week of May 31 to June 6, when riots and looting exploded alongside “peaceful protests” against the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In Chicago, for example, May 31 marked the single deadliest 24-hour period in 60 years, with 18 people killed.
Crime escalated, in part, because police who normally would have been patrolling neighborhoods were pulled off the beat to secure downtown areas and commercial districts targeted by looters.
Ironically, L.A.’s grim week coincided with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s announcement that the LAPD budget would be cut by up to $150 million, which is more than two percent of the current total. His announcement encouraged protesters who support calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police.
The money, he said, was to be “reinvested” in “communities of color” — the same communities enduring a crime wave during the Black Lives Matter protests.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
McCarthy: Defund Police Movement Stronger in the Democratic Party than Impeachment, Medicare for All Ever Was
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Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dismissed the claim that the so-called defund the police efforts were a step too far for Democrats.
McCarthy explained that in the past, Democrats have said other things were too much, including impeachment and Medicare for All. However, they later pursued them as policy.
“Those are the exact same words I heard Nancy Pelosi say about impeachment and then she moved forward — or Medicare for All,” he said. “Those are things that they start to say before they surrender to the socialists. This movement of defunding the police through the Democratic Party is stronger than impeachment ever was nor Medicare for All because they’re already taking actions on it. Cities are already doing that. And that’s the last thing you want to happen, and it only perpetuates the problem more. We should be providing more money to training. If you look at the recent study by the chiefs of police, 80 percent of them said there’s a greater need for training. We want the very best officers out there. So we should provide greater training.”
“We should provide better transparency — the data,” McCarthy continued. “We’ve got an FBI where individuals can put in a datasheet, but only 45% of the departments participate in that. And then you want accountability. Ninety-nine percent of all officers believe and put their — put their life on the line to protect and serve us. But what about those one percent of bad apples? We’ve got to be able to remove those individuals, and it’s normally not the first time when we see it. If we have better performance, better transparency, and better accountability, we will have a much better solution to this problem.”
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