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The Left Adopts ‘Aggressive’

<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The mainstream media loves to condemn violence and aggression when it comes from the far-right&comma; but hesitates to do so when the attacks are coming from the left&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">An extreme example is the media’s disappointing response to the recent shootings in Texas and Ohio&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The Texas shooting was committed by a far-right individual who had complained about the &OpenCurlyQuote;Hispanic invasion&period;’ The Ohio shooting was committed by a socialist who supported Antifa&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Both individuals are psychos and deserve condemnation from all sides &&num;8211&semi; but instead&comma; the media blamed the Texas shooting on President Trump’s &&num;8216&semi;rhetoric&&num;8217&semi; and completely failed to comment on the Ohio shooter&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Democrats have also blamed Trump’s &&num;8216&semi;nationalist rhetoric&&num;8217&semi; for a series of attacks on ICE offices in Texas&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This disturbing public discourse shrouds our critical law enforcement function and unnecessarily puts our officers’ safety at risk&comma;” says San Antonio ICE Director Daniel Bible&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We cannot allow political discourse to lead us to the point of violence&comma; where federal employees&comma; innocent people doing their jobs&comma; are put in harm’s way&comma;” adds FBI agent Christopher Combs&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Last weekend&comma; nearly 100 people were arrested in New York City during a demonstration outside an ICE office&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The city was forced to close major roadways as protestors sat in the streets waving signs that read &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Close the camps” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Abolish ICE&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Democrats this month also took aim at the Supreme Court&comma; threatening to add more seats to the bench if the court issues a pro-<i>Second Amendment<&sol;i> ruling on a case related to gun control laws in New York&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Supreme Court is not well&period; And the people know it&comma;” wrote Senator Sheldon Whitehouse &lpar;D-RI&rpar; in a filing&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Perhaps the court can heal itself before the public demands it be &OpenCurlyQuote;restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics&period;’ Particularly on the urgent issue of gun control&comma; a nation desperately needs it to heal&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">We haven’t seen such a blatant threat to the judicial system since the 1930’s&comma; when Roosevelt was so frustrated with the Supreme Court over its rulings on his New Deal that he threatened to add six justices to the bench&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>Can you imagine Democrats&&num;8217&semi; response if Republicans had threatened Obama’s Supreme Court&quest;&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In other news&comma; several Democratic candidates are taking aim at the fossil fuel industry and demanding that companies<span class&equals;"s1"> make up for their role in global warming&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders says fossil fuel companies are guilty of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;criminal activity” because they knowingly released greenhouse gases into the air&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Rival candidate Jay Inslee sees these companies as murderers&comma; Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a fossil fuel &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;excise tax&comma;” and Elizabeth Warren has a plan to sue them&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Even Sleepy Joe Biden has promised to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;take action against fossil fuel companies&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Unfortuantley&comma; these strategies are likely to impact working-class families to the tune of layoffs and increased energy costs&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These campaign plans all seem to pit their goals against the working families who rely on affordable American energy in every facet of their daily lives&comma;” says Ben Marter&comma; a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Ironically&comma; the working class is exactly who the Democrats are trying to save&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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