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Who Is Guilty of Inciting Riots?

 By Bill Donohue | January 8, 2021 | 3:55pm EST

 

 

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) speaks at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's National Emergency declaration, Feb. 18, 2019. (Photo credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

In the wake of the storming of the Capitol, many are blaming President Trump for the violence. Of course, he never instructed anyone to engage in violence. Nevertheless, his critics argue that he stoked people's passions, which he did, and can therefore be held accountable. 

If this is the standard—inflammatory rhetoric—then Trump's critics are at best ethically compromised. Consider the following remarks, made by the kind of people who are now hammering the president.

• "I need you to get out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face." Presidential candidate Barack Obama, 2008

• "When they go low, we kick 'em. That's what this new Democratic Party is about." Former Attorney General Eric Holder, 2018

• "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere." Rep. Maxine Waters, 2018

• "Please, get up in the face of some congresspeople." Sen. Cory Booker, 2020

• "People will do what they do." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi commenting on violent protesters, 2020

• "You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives, and unfortunately there is plenty to go around." Rep. Ayanna Pressley, 2020

• "They're [left-wing protesters] not gonna stop before Election Day in November and they're not gonna stop after Election Day. And that should be—everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't, they're not gonna let up and they should not. And we should not." Sen. Kamala Harris, 2020

• "And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful." CNN host Chris Cuomo, 2020

• "When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services." New York City Mayor Bill de Blasiojustifying illegal street protests that violated social distancing norms while he restricted church services, 2020

• "I can't imagine what it would look like if we said to people, 'Actually, you have to stay in. You have to ignore systemic racism—I'm sorry, just ignore it. Stay in.'" New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy justifying illegal street protests that violated social distancing norms while restricting church services, 2020

• "As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of black people in the United States." Twelve-hundred health and medical colleaguesjustifying illegal street protests that violated social distancing norms, 2020

• "Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence." Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times journalist, 2020

• "We don't have to finger-wag at protesters about property. That can be rebuilt." David Remnick, New Yorker journalist

• "The notion that nonviolence is tactically more effective...has not only been proven wrong over the past week by sheer numbers; it cannot be historically supported." R.H. Lossin, Ph.D., The Nation magazine, 2020

• "A siege [of the White House] only works if it is sustained. We witnessed this—the multiplying power of a strategic occupation—nine years ago. You dig in, hold your ground, and the tension accumulates, amplifies, goes global." Adbusters, the group that started Occupy Wall Street, 2020

Many more examples could be given. In fairness, these comments, while incendiary, are not direct calls for violence. But it is also true that nothing Trump said was a direct call for violence either. 

Left-wing commentators and activists (pretty much the same these days) have no moral authority to lecture the rest of us about violence committed by right-wing protesters. They nurtured a climate of violence over the past year by giving Antifa and Black Lives Matter their blessings. 

If they were principled, they would do as the Catholic League does and condemn violent protesters regardless of their cause. But they are not.

Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of eight books and many articles. 

                    TRUTH or CONSEQUENCE 

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I posted an article yesterday that shows the knee jerk reaction of some so called news sites to run with an incomplete version of facts to muddy the waters in order to  advance a narrative that suits their agenda. As one would expect in any big story, reports, pictures and newsworthy information are being uncovered rapidly. Good reporting is gathering it all, verifying sources, sticking to facts, eliminating none and avoiding conjecture.  In the article sited in my previous post, the writer disqualifies the existence of facts that were already reported by January 7th, that a" far-left Antifa/BLM activist.... had "been identified as one of the people who allegedly was part of the siege of the Capitol building....."(100percentfedup.com)  Zerohedge.com reported on Jan.7 that there were multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus. "In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses......." (zerohedge.com) but is no longer available on twitter. According to zerohedge.com another activist (image provided) was positively identified as a member of Philly Antifa. 

If you read theVox.com article sited previously you will see these discoveries were left out of their report to set a narrative that  Paul Gosar, other republicans and Trump supporters were advancing a conspiracy theory alleging antifa's involvement in the Capitol riots.  We know from a subsequent report by thespectator.info that a BLM/antifa member was seen storming the Capitol.

The facts continue to come out and will for a long time. The facts hopefully will reveal what transpired and the perpetrators. My experience and first hand knowledge of freedom loving, patriotic Americans is not what took place at the Capitol on Wed., Jan 6.  There were infiltrators, troublemakers who's mission was to create unrest. In my estimation, they were successful at infiltrating, flaming the fire of anger and inspiring some to follow (maybe 1%)which can occur organically in large groups.  Unfortunately there are followers in every group.  I marched numerous times with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of patriots between 2009 and 2012 and there was never an act of violence directed at individuals, government buildings or monuments!

The next post, an article by Bill Donahue of the Catholic League gives an account of incendiary language that provokes confrontation by many on the left that has been ignored or not reported by the mainstream media.  

 

      

              TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE

From time to time I will be posting articles written by various authors to provide chronological perspective.  It is important to understand the language and images as they were chronologically written in order to grasp the mainstream media's 4 year pre-election narrative that was injected with post-election propaganda creating a narrative on steroids.  This narrative is prepared, written, perpetuated and approved by network moguls, played nightly on their networks, spread widely by the censorship of Big Tech, delivered most times by Democrats/socialists and sometimes, more times than we want to believe by duplicitous Republicans (to correct error) who abandon ship when the going gets tough. As reported in a previous Vox.com article dated Jan.7, 2021 Kelly Loeffler did exactly that when she withdrew her objection in a floor speech on Jan. 6, 2021.   

   

The far right is falsely blaming antifa for the pro-Trump insurrection on Capitol Hill

Conspiracy theories alleging antifa involvement spread quickly in the riot’s aftermath.

By Jerusalem Demsas@JerusalemDemsas  Updated Jan 7, 2021, 11:44am EST

Just hours after right-wing pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona was already spreading a baseless conspiracy theory that antifa had provoked the chaos. 

By that evening, two more congressional Republicans had joined him. First, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who told Lou Dobbs

continue reading at  https://www.vox.com/22217747/republicans-antifa-storm-the-capitol-trump-washington-dc-stop-steal-impeachment-election-hawley-cruz 

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THE TRUMP MARCH, JANUARY 6, 2021 - PART 1

                      THE TRUMP MARCH, JANUARY 6, 2021

I'm thrilled to see people checking in once in a while. I didn't expected to see any activity because I've been away from writing for so long.  I love to write but have been a little preoccupied the last 4 years with a wonderful diversion, my five grandchildren.  I watch three of them two days a week. It is one of the greatest joys of my life. I find it exhilarating and fun and it keeps me young.  At the end of the day I know my grandchildren are safe and loved and growing up in an environment rich in values, traditions and faith that is so important in the life of a child.  Our culture has to get back to caring for our own children and depending less on day care.   We need to promote the family and the impact it has on the health, development and well being of children.  

I teach religion to a first grade class and have been doing that and substitute teaching for 20 years.  I love teaching but I love my country more. I feel a responsibility to act when my country is in trouble.  Our country is in need of every citizen's attention!   In the past I used blogging to inform, report and comment on important developments. I intend to provide that insight again.  Yesterday was the culmination of weeks of waiting for answers to the unresolved election results.  I have been a supporter of President Trump for four years. I believe in his policies and I believe in HIM.  I was extremely disappointed that the GOP did not demand the complete hearing he was entitled to. 

January 6, 2021, was the worst day in my lifetime since 9/11. The outcome was alarming and devastating......, no...., I'm not referring to the obvious, what main stream media wants you to think about.  I'm talking about yesterday's turn of events that prevented a thorough examination of every aspect of each state's election irregularities.  It isn't in the best interest of our country to block the collection of information that can provide transparency and restore integrity because a minority of people (at best 1%) breached the capitol which recovered in approximately 4 hours?  One can't help but QUESTION the motives of those who would obstruct the completion of this procedure.  And question, WE SHOULD and not stop until we get answers and finality to an unprecedented steal involving electronic manipulation, manipulation of state election law and the dereliction of election officials.  All this must come to light not later, NOW for the sake of our Republic and to restore integrity to the election process.  

So what were the motives of those who wouldn't allow for a complete account of election irregularities on the floor of congress yesterday?  And was it a coincidence that the violence broke out just as the first state, Arizona was presenting its objections?  I say no, Capitol authorities deemed the Capitol safe and deliberately resumed proceedings quickly so that the images of unrest were fresh in the minds of Congress,  creating the perfect scenario for them to be free of ridicule if they reneged on their objections to electoral results and that's exactly what happened.  "Originally, about 14 Senate Republicans and roughly 140 House Republicans had planned to vote in favor of the objections, meaning some lawmakers did change their votes after the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday". (Li Zhou, vox.com)  In the end 7 senators and 138 congressional representatives voted in favor of objecting certification results and only Arizona and Pennsylvania were permitted to present their objections to the Congress.    

The motives to deny evidence of wrongdoing in theNov. 3rd election are; to ensure the elite power structure, hate for Trump and to complete the organized political Coup d'etat underway before Obama left office.  The elite power structure consists of Washington Insiders, aka,"the swamp" who are diabolically driven to retain power and who are guided by impulses to eliminate all who threaten their control.  This is true for many senators and congressmen, Washington establishment types, many in our intelligence agencies and disturbingly and never heard of in my lifetime, military leaders!  The last group is a frightening reminder of how fragile our Republic is.

The senators, congressmen and congresswomen who acted courageously in the face of reprisal from their peers and Washington elites are my heroes!  These patriots remained fearless and loyal to our president along with the hundreds of thousands of voters who traveled to Washington that day to support President Trump and the process of providing transparency to election results. 

Go to https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22218058/republicans-objections-election-results see the names of the senators and house representatives

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