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Domestic violence …  left or right?

&NewLine;<p>Ever since the riot on Capitol Hill&comma; the media has had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right-wing political violence” on serial loop as an evergreen left-wing subject&period;  To advance their mendacious narrative&comma; they get amnesia of the hundreds of riots and violent actions by those on the left that occurred for decades before January 6&comma; 2021&period;  Outside of the Capitol Hill event&comma; it is almost impossible to find comparable right-wing violence in numbers and outcomes as left-wing violence – and virtually nothing beyond an occasional lone wolf&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Virtually all the reporting on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right-wing political violence” since January 2021 has been speculative or predictive &&num;8212&semi; with amazingly disappointing results for those doing the speculating and predicting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Remember how mobs were predicted to re-appear on Capitol Hill to participate in an anniversary riot on January 6&comma; 2022&quest;&nbsp&semi; With knees symbolically trembling&comma; then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi underscored the fearmongering by calling on the National Guard and erecting fencing around the area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On that day&comma; approximately 200 people assembled on Capitol Hill with permit in hand –outnumbered by police&comma; military and reporters&period; They heard a few speeches and went home without incident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And also remember&comma; that the prediction at the ti8be assembling in cities across the country in a mood for violence&period;&nbsp&semi; And what happened&quest;&nbsp&semi; Apparently nothing reportable – and you know the media would have hyped two drunks overturning a police car into the lead story of the day if they could spin it as a right-wing incident<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Remember all the predictions of potential violence if Trump was indicted&quest;&nbsp&semi; Or the fearmonger reports of possible violence when he goes on trial in New York&quest;&nbsp&semi; And all those security fences&comma; barriers and closed streets&quest;&nbsp&semi; And what happened&quest;&nbsp&semi; A few supporters cheering the former President&period;&nbsp&semi; No confrontations with counter-demonstrators&period;&nbsp&semi; No attacking police&period;&nbsp&semi; No arrests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>We are told that out of sight&comma; there is the forming of a grand insurrectionist population&comma; arming themselves for a violent uprising – a future coup attempt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>FBI Director James Wray has frequently weighed in with his narrow claim that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right-wing domestic violence” is the greatest threat to American peace and harmony&period;&nbsp&semi; He monitors right-wing groups and conservative religious organizations&period;&nbsp&semi; The Department of Justice under Merrick Garland referred to concerned school parents as potential &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;terrorists&period;”&nbsp&semi; He later backed down in an attempt to unring that bell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Yet&comma; no such concern expressed for the REAL violence that has occurred in our Democratic-run cities over several decades&period;&nbsp&semi; Riots that have destroyed neighborhoods&comma; leaving people homeless and without local businesses – and injuring citizens and police&comma; and killing some&period;&nbsp&semi; They are real – and not theoretical – examples of domestic violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Democrats and the media have long held that the rise in antisemitism<a> <&sol;a>is due to right-wing hatred&period;  Now that the scab has been pulled off of America’s antisemitic sentiment&comma; what do we find&quest;  Left-wing antisemitism on steroids that &&num;8212&semi; has been hitherto on the back burner in our acclaimed left-wing academic institutions&period;  Antisemitism is seen in the news reports on left-wing platforms –reports that sympathize with protestors and rioters&period;  These are REAL examples of antisemitism and Real acts of violence against Jewish students by left-wing agitators fostered by the curriculum of left-wing academic institutions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>They say that Trump’s rhetoric is inciting POTENTIAL violence&period;&nbsp&semi; The word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;potential” is important because despite his historic over-the-top attacks on various perceived enemies or turncoats &lpar;which I have consistently condemned&rpar;&comma; there has been no significant violence from the right as a result&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I emphasize &&num;8230&semi; that is NOT to say that there are not some nutcase lone wolves out there ready to commit what can be seen as right-wing violence&period;&nbsp&semi; Such crazies exist &&num;8212&semi; and we see them surface from time to time&period;&nbsp&semi; But they are not exclusively right wingers or motivated by Trump&period;&nbsp&semi; These whackos come from the right&comma; the left or mostly from other motivations&comma; such as religious intolerance&comma; terrorism and mental health&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Today we see the left-wing violence on college campuses across the nation&period;&nbsp&semi; The perpetrators include students&comma; outside &lpar;and often paid professional&rpar; agitators and faculty&period; The violence is clearly anti-Semitic&period;&nbsp&semi; With calls for death to Jews and the annihilation of the State of Israel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And what about the reality of systemic institutional racism in our major Democrat &lpar;left-wing&rpar;-run cities that impose oppression&comma; violence – occasionally deadly – on a segregated and impoverished Black community&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Perhaps the imbalance between right-wing and left-wing violence is so stark because of a cultural acceptance of left-wing violence as a norm&period;&nbsp&semi; Not only is it not addressed as criminal – with perpetrators held accountable by law enforcement – but it is celebrated by the radical left as noble&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As a free speech extremist&comma; I believe in the right to assemble and protest&period;&nbsp&semi; But those rights have limits under the law&period;&nbsp&semi; No one is entitled to take away the constitutional rights of others to express themselves – interfere with the right of others to go about their daily business without being obstructed&comma; accosted&comma; intimidated&comma; assaulted&comma; or injured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>An objective accounting of political violence in America clearly establishes that the greater problem comes from the left – historically and currently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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