Far-left activists from Antifa flooded a Portland neighborhood on Saturday, threatening residents of a building with promises to burn it down.

The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo, who testified before Congress about the far-left group, posted a clip of the riot with quotes of what Antifa militants were saying.

Were gonna burn your building down.

We know where you live.

As Antifa have taken to Portland residential areas to riot, theyve also assaulted & intimidated residents there, Ngo wrote. Tonight, they threatened those who looked out the window.

The incident follows the federal governments pull out of Portland, which has prompted far-left activists to move on to other parts of the city beyond the federal courthouse, where congregated every night for the past two months.

During Saturdays protest, Antifa also attempted to set fire to a police building.

In a statement, the Portland Police Department wrote that protesters arrived with support vehicles that allowed them to illegally block other vehicle traffic before heading to the Portland Police Association Office on North Lombard Street.

People within the crowd committed crimes when they erected a fence, pushed dumpsters into the street to block traffic, set a dumpster on fire, vandalized the PPA office with spray paint, and destroyed security cameras, the police said.

Police added that people within the crowd broke the window to the PPA building, entered it and committed crimes of criminal mischief, burglary, and attempted arson.

Police were forced to declare a riot in order to disperse them, but were met with a hostile crowd who threw paint balloons and glass bottles at police officers.

The hostile crowd also tried to injure officers by shining green lasers into their eyes, which is a crime in Oregon. Three officers suffered injuries. Two were transported to an area hospital by police vehicle and later released, stated police.

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Rioters in Portland, Ore., July 26, 2020.(Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)

The Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a congressional hearing Tuesday on violence and criminal acts tied to Antifa.

The committee, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), will hold a hearing titled The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence.

Americans have a constitutional right to gather, protest, and otherwise have their voices heard, but they must do so peacefully, Cruz said in a statement. Antifa is fundamentally against free-speech and is using peaceful protests as a cover and an excuse to engage in violence and other criminal actions.

Cruz pointed to Portland, where he said self-proclaimed anti-fascist criminals are trying to burn down the federal courthouse.

The hearing will highlight how Antifa and other anarchists are hijacking peaceful protests and engaging in political violence that is not only criminal, but antithetical to the First Amendment, he added.

The hearing will reportedly detail Antifas role in riots and feature witnesses including Department of Homeland Security acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and co-head of the Department of Justice Task Force on Violent Anti-Government Extremists Erin Nealy Cox, journalist Andy Ngo and others, the Daily Caller reported.

Federal agents were deployed to Portland and a number of other cities in the wake of nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd that has seen federal buildings, police offices and statues vandalized by rioters. Rioters in Portland injured a number of federal agents after launching fireworks at them and shining lasers at their eyes.

While many lawmakers have denounced violence caused by Antifa, others, like Representative Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) have called it a myth.

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A person wearing a gas mask waves a flag during an antifascist rally in Boston. (Jonathan Wiggs / Getty)

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Department of Homeland Security intelligence officials are targeting activists it considers antifa and attempting to tie them to a foreign power, according to a DHS intelligence report obtained exclusively by The Nation.Ad Policy

The intelligence report, titled The Syrian Conflict and Its Nexus to the U.S.-based Antifascist Movement, mentions several Americans, including a left-wing podcast host who traveled to Syria to fight ISIS. The report includes these individuals personal information, including their Social Security numbers, home addresses, and social media accounts, much of the data generated by the DHSs Tactical Terrorism Response Teams. As the intelligence report states, ANTIFA is being analyzed under the 2019 DHS Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism (CT) and Targeted Violence.

Dated July 14, the document, marked for official use only and law enforcement sensitive, draws on a blend of publicly available information and state and federal law enforcement intelligence. It was provided to The Nation by a source who previously worked on DHS intelligence.

They targeted Americans like theyre Al Qaeda, a former senior DHS intelligence officer with knowledge of the operations told The Nation. The officer, who served for years in the DHSs Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), compared the operations to the illegal surveillance of activists during the civil rights era. They essentially were violating peoples rights like this was the 60sthe type of shit the Church and Pike committee[s] had to address.Whither Antifa

While the law generally prohibits intelligence agencies from spying on US residents, many of those protections do not apply if the individual is believed to be acting as an agent of a foreign power.

Designating someone as foreign-sponsored can make a huge legal and practical difference in the governments ability to pursue them, explained Steven Aftergood, who heads the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. Its a crucial distinction. Once someone (or some group) is identified as an agent of a foreign power, they are subject to warrantless search and surveillance in a way that would be illegal and unconstitutional for any other US person. The whole apparatus of US intelligence can be brought to bear on someone who is considered an agent of a foreign power.Current Issue

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Last week the DHS reassigned its intelligence chief after The Washington Post revealed that the agency had been compiling intelligence reports on American journalists and activists in Portland, Ore. In response to President Trumps executive order to protect monuments and other federal property, the DHS created the Protecting American Communities Task Force, which sent DHS assets to Portland and other cities. The agency has found itself in transition under the Trump administration.They are always pressuring I&A for political reasons. Its been like that since the election, the former intelligence officer said.

This weekend, Politico reported that DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli loosened oversight of I&A. Cuccinelli, at I&As request, curtailed the requirement that the DHSs Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties approve I&As intelligence products before distribution to law enforcement partners.

The intelligence reports executive summary states:

In June 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) National Targeting Center (NTC) Counter Network Division (CND) compiled CBP encounter data on individuals who returned from Syria and fought with the Yekneyn Parastina Gel (YPG, translation: PEOPLES PROTECTION UNITS), and had some with reported ties to a U.S.-based ANTIFA (Anti-fascist) movement. CBP concerns about and interest in these individuals stem from the types of skills and motivations that may have developed during their time overseas in foreign conflicts.

These skills were also appreciated by the US military, which cooperated with the YPG in fighting ISIS for years. Last year Trump enraged many in the US military when he green-lit a Turkish offensive against the Kurdish militia. Jim Mattis reportedly resigned as defense secretary in part because of what he considered a betrayal of our Kurdish allies.

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The intelligence report describes over half a dozen people who traveled to Syria in order to fight alongside Kurdish factionsusually the YPG but also other Kurdish groups like the PKK and the Peshmerga. Some of the individuals described have denied membership in antifa but variously identified with far-left causes. The DHS appears to define antifa broadly to encompass various left-wing tendencies: Antifa is driven by a mixed range of far-left political ideologies, including anti-capitalism, communism, socialism, and anarchism. In two cases, evidence of antifa affiliation was limited to photos taken in front of an antifa flag. As the intelligence report notes, ANTIFA claims no official leadership, raising questions about whether antifa even exists in any sort of operational capacity.

The first individual mentioned in the intelligence report, Brace Belden, cohosts the popular left-wing podcast TrueAnonand fought with the YPG in 2016. The information appears to be partly drawn from a 2017 article on him in Rolling Stone, which described him as a minor criminal and drug addict who started reading Marx and Lenin in drug rehabilitation treatment and became involved in a number of political causes before deciding to fight alongside the YPG.

The report says of an encounter between Belden and border authorities:

U.S. citizen (USC) Brace BELDEN was encountered on 08 April 2017, arriving in San Francisco, California from Frankfurt, Germany. BELDEN was returning from a six month tour of volunteering to fight with the YPG under the umbrella of the Syrian Democrat Forces (SDF) fighting ISIS in Syria as part of the ongoing Raqqa offensive starting in November 2016 to retake Raqqa from ISIS. BELDEN stated he recently learned that an open source article had been written about him and his Anarchist fighters.

Belden scoffed at the association. I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of any antifa organization, he told The Nation. The US government has been spying on and smearing communists for 100 years, but they usually have the decency not to call a Red an anarchist.

There appears to be a clear connectionbetween ANTIFA ideology and Kurdish democratic federalism teachings and ideology, the intelligence report states. At least one of the activists listed is described as ethnically Kurdish.

On May 31, Trump vowed to designate antifa a terrorist organization. While antifa groups have engaged in acts of property destruction, antifa has not been linked to a single killing in the United States, according to data compiled in the past 25 years by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. By contrast, the same data found that far-right extremist groups killed 329 people.

The intelligence report appears to conclude that the individuals described were not acting on behalf of a foreign groupsave for one unnamed person.

Aside from a single instance derived from open-source reporting, there does not appear to be evidence of a centralized effort to give marching orders to returning ANTIFA-affiliated USPER [US person] foreign fighters once they return to the United States.

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A social media rumor that militant and other groups were going to protest in Weatherford prompted more than 200 counterprotesters, many of them armed, to show up at the county courthouse Saturday, the Weatherford Democrat reported.

Sgt. Matthew Chalmers, a Weatherford police spokesman, said counterprotesters began gathering near the courthouse around 8 a.m., but the groups that were rumored to be planning a demonstration never showed.

The information that was floating around social media was that there was going to be several hundred people coming from [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa ... to protest the statue on the courthouse square, Chalmers said. As a result, we had several counterprotest group get on social media as well to gather and come to Weatherford.

The Weatherford Democrat reported that many of the counterprotesters carried shotguns, rifles and semi-automatic weapons.

Ive seen whats going on around the world, like Minneapolis, a resident named Curtis, who asked that his last name to be withheld, told the outlet. He was carrying a semi-automatic rifle. He said he served 10 years in the U.S. Marines and told the outlet that he came to protect his hometown.

I dont want that to come here to Texas, he said. This is where we live and where we raise our families. We dont want to see any of that violence and chaos. Were not out here to incite any violence, were just here to let them know that the citizens dont want them busting in from other places telling us how our city should run. Its pretty much that simple.

The Democrat reported that the courthouse was surrounded by barricades Saturday morning, and that Weatherford police, the Parker County Sheriffs Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety were on the scene.

Parker County commissioners voted last month not to remove a Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn, a decision that prompted large protests. One such demonstration on July 25 has resulted in six arrests, the Democrat reported.

On Thursday, Weatherford Police Chief Lance Arnold told the Democrat that the department was aware of rumors circulating that outside groups planned to protesting at the courthouse over the weekend.

We have seen a tremendous amount of false and untruthful information about Antifa and other groups coming to Weatherford, Arnold said. Some social media posts even indicate they received their information about massive rallies in Weatherford from WPD. We have not told anyone that, and we have no evidence of any such activity this weekend.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is aiming to highlight the role Antifa and like-minded groups are playing in riots across the country, convening a Senate hearing Tuesday on the issue whilealleging thatradical left-wing groups are engaging in "organized terrorattacks" designed to tear down government institutions.

Across the country, were seeing horrific violence, were seeing our country torn apart. Violent anarchists and Marxists are exploiting protests to transform them into riots and direct assaults on the lives and safety of their fellow Americans, Cruz told Fox News in an interview.

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On Tuesday, Cruz will chair ahearing ofthe Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitutionto investigate groups such as Antifa, which, while active for years, have recently escalated their presence in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody. The hearing is called "The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence.

Speakers will include Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, journalist Andy Ngo and law professor Jonathan Turley. It comes after two months of protests and violent riots hit downtown Portland, where rioters have attacked the Hatfield Courthouse and clashed with federal law enforcement protecting it.

As part of his opening statement, Cruz will playa video to the committee thatshowspeaceful protests led bycivil rights leaders such asMartin Luther King Jr., and contrasts themwith the violence committed by Antifa and similar groups.

"These violent riots are not spontaneous, nor are they mere coincidences. Instead, the evidence suggests they are organized terrorattacks designed to instill fear and tear down the fundamental institutions of government. This hearing is designed to understand who is driving the violence, who is driving the assaults, who is driving the murders, and what their objective is, Cruz said.

Law enforcement in Portland were blinded by lasers, assaulted and doxed online. But local and state officials backed the protesters and accused the Trump administration of having escalated the situation with their presence, as well as "kidnapping" protesters. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and DHS came to an agreement late last month on a phased withdrawal for law enforcement, conditional on the courthouse being protected.

But Portland is one of a number of cities that have been hit by unrest amid broader protests, some of them peaceful, since the death of George Floyd in May. Cruz asserts that the violence is not a natural offshoot of peacefulprotests against police brutality-- and he wants to get to the bottom of who is responsible.

"The hearing will assess who is driving the violence, who is driving the assaults, who isdriving the fires, who isdriving the explosions, who isdriving the murders, why are they doing so, how are they doing so and what do they hope to achieve through violent acts of terror?" he told Fox News.

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As well as Antifa, Cruz also wants the hearing to look at Black Lives Matter. He makes a distinction between the statement black lives matter, which he calls unquestionably true, and the organization Black Lives Matter -- which has called for people to disrupt the "Western-prescribednuclear familystructure"and defundpolice departments.

The actual organization denominated Black Lives Matter was created by avowed Marxists pursuing a radical agenda including defunding police departments across the country and that agenda, if implemented, would have the consequence of a great many more Black lives being lost, Cruz said.

The hearing comes after Cruz last month introduced the RECLAIM Act which would hold state and local officials liable for private property damage caused by rioters if those officials had given a stand-down order to police or had allowed rioters to establish an autonomous zone as happened recently in Seattle

Cruz says he hopes there is common ground with the Democratic minority in the Senate: All of us should be able to come together and say don't assault other Americans, don't burn their homes or businesses to the ground, dont murder police officers.

However, he notes that a number of Democrats, both locally and nationally, have criticized the actions of law enforcement in places like Portland. Oregons Democratic congressional delegation demanded investigations into federal activity while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called officers stormtroopers -- a remark that outraged Cruz and others.

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When Nancy Pelosi calls federal law enforcement officers stormtroopers and that is a term that hearkens back to Nazi Germany, when she wrongfully alleges that they are kidnapping Americans, that is a grotesque lie, and a slander and it endangers the lives of law enforcement, he said.

It reflects the very unfortunate political determination that a lot of Democrats have made -- that given the choice between standing with innocent Americans or violent terrorists seeking to hurt their fellow citizens, to date too many of them have stood with terrorists, he said.

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Editor: A letter writer recently tried to shed a positive light on Antifa (July 16). If you do a google search on Antifa you will find this information on Wikipedia:

Individuals involved in the movement tend to hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views, subscribing to a range of left-wing ideologies such as anarchism, communism, Marxism, social democracy and socialism. Both the name Antifa and the logo with two flags representing anarchism and communism are derived from the German Antifa movement.

The Anti-Defamation League states that the label Antifa should be limited to those who proactively seek physical confrontations with their perceived fascist adversaries.

Police in Tacoma, Washington, rushed to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. An armed man was firebombing the building and nearby vehicles. Police shot and killed him after he attempted to set off a large propane tank connected to the facility. Antifa social media accounts subsequently identified their fallen comrade as Willem Van Spronsen.

Andy Ngo, a gay journalist, was left hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after a mob of mask-clad rioters beat and robbed him while he was covering a demonstration in downtown Portland, Oregon. The attack, claimed by Rose City Antifa, was caught on videos that went viral online.

There are many examples like the above. When you see a group dressed head to toe including full masks in black beating people with clubs, destroying property, and extremely violent it most probably is Antifa.

This is not a benign group. If you get in their way, God help you. This is a group that uses violence to destroy the USA by causing anarchy and install communism. For God and country do not allow them to achieve their goal.

Robert Morgan

Kingston

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An antifa recruitment website is raising eyebrows, not just for its overall sketchy nature, but because Ben Shapiro was tied to the site through its source code.

The site, braverthanthetroops.org, requires visitors who want to sign up to join the fight against fascism to input their full name, email, city, state, and a comment/message.

Sign up below to be notified of rallies in your neighborhood. You will also get periodic messages from the leader of Antifa, the site reads. D.C. is the area code for the phone number listed, 202-643-5375, and it urges visitors to leave a voicemail so that a comrades can get in touch. All emails and voicemails collected become public domain, fine print at the bottom of the apparent honeypot reads.

People online first speculated that the site was created by a government agency looking to collect information on anti-fascist protesters. But upon further inspection, the site appeared to have either been created by Shapiro or someone trolling the conservative commentator by making it look like he created it.

Welcome to Your New Site Mr. Shapiro Check for your welcome email at [emailprotected], part of the source code reads.

Anyone can view a sites source code, so some are refusing to believe Shapirono matter how terrible (he is) at everything he doesis sloppy enough to leave such a public trail behind.

And they are right. The biggest clue as to who created the site is the hyperlink added to the text: leader of Antifa. The link redirects visitors to a tweet by Adam Rahuba, who is known for trolling the far-right.

Here is your message from the LEADER OF ANTIFA. There is no leader of Antifa. There is no organization to join, Rahubas tweet reads. The honeypot is a troll to fuck with far-right dorks like this crazy weirdo who left a voicemail on our fake hotline.

Rahuba told the Daily Dot he was inspired to create the fake site following the success of his Gettysburg prank in which he tricked far-right counter-protesters into attending a fake antfia rally at Gettysburg National Military Park. Hundreds showed up to the protest under the impression antifa would be burning American flags. Only, they showed up to protest nothing and confront no one.

Rahuba said that even though it is now public knowledge he is the sites creator, he still thinks a good number of far-right individuals will still fall for it. Rahuba added that he played to peoples perception of Bens intelligence by leaving Shapiros name and email in the source code. I think that Ben would actually unintentionally make a blunder like that, Rahuba said.

Rahuba also included in his tweet audio featuring a voicemail left by a man who goes on an over minute-long rant comparing antfia and Black Lives Matter protesters to Nazis. Your time is coming motherfuckers, the man says. You come to my town, starting this shit, I guarantee you, youll be left in fucking body bags. Rahuba also plugged his Venmo, @PPN412, for people who want to support dunking on the right-wing and help him grab a meal or pay rent.

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U.S. President Donald Trump pushed the conspiracy theory that George Soros is funding Antifa duringan interview with Fox News on Wednesday.

In a wide ranging interview with "Fox & Friends," Trump and the co-hosts were discussing the recent wave of protests in the U.S. and was asked who is funding the protesters. Trump responded,"You have Democrats funding them. They say Soros and they say other people."

Trump was referring to George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who haslong been a targetof conspiracy theories. Soros has recently been falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

They have been accompanied by online ads bought by conservative groups that call on authorities to investigate George Soros for funding domestic terrorism and his decades-long corruption.

As some of the protests that broke out in the wake of the killing of George Floyd turned violent, many pointed their finger at the far-left group in addition to far-right groups, claiming they came to stoke more unrest.

Soros, 89, has donatedbillionsofdollarsof his personal wealth to liberal and anti-authoritariancausesaround the world, making him a favored target among many on the right. The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject ofantisemitic attacksand conspiracy theories for decades.

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Trump also said he will probably give his Republican presidential nomination speech live from the White House, although the plans have not been confirmed yet.

"We're thinking about it. We're thinking about doing it from the White House," he said. " It's the easiest alternative. It would be by far the least expensive from the country's standpoint."

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The coronavirus outbreak in the United States, where deaths have been averaging more than 1,000 a day in recent weeks, has thrown several wrenches into the Republican Party's plans for its nominating convention, initially set for Charlotte, North Carolina.

Trump already moved part of the convention from North Carolina to Florida because of restrictions on gathering due to the virus, but the surge in cases had led some Republicans to pull out of attending the Florida event.

Last month, Trump said he would no longer hold part of the nominating convention in Jacksonville, Florida, in August because of a spike in coronavirus cases in the state.

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There is a new faction in WWE, and fans aren't sure what to think of it. On WWE Raw, broadcaster Tom Phillips showed the fans surveillance camera footage of a group of unknown men and women wearing black attire with hoodies throwing firebombs at a transformer outside the WWE Performance Center. They began cheering once the transformer was set on fire.

Hours before Raw, WWE announced a new faction was coming to "cause chaos" in the company. It also said the members of the stable would not be immediately revealed as they being kept close to the vest. As mentioned by Wrestling Inc., the idea behind the faction is to get the attention of WWE officials so they would "loosen control" over the WWE SuperStars and change the way to company operates on the day-to-day basis.

The big issue with this is fans began comparing the group to Antifa, which has led demonstrations all over the U.S. this summer. WWE is not making the group of a political affair as it's specific to a storyline. Regardless, the new faction isn't what fans were expecting and showed their frustration on social media.

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The violent riots continue, aided and abetted by Democrat politicians and Leftists who want the disruptions, COVID-19 lockdowns, and economic uncertainties to continue so Trump is defeated in 2020.

The ever-partisan Rep. Jerry Nadler had the audacity and ignorance, while not wearing his mask, to assert the claim of Antifa-BLM urban violence is a myth.

The shortsighted closing of schools is stimulating parental choice for private and charter schools and homeschooling. Public schools that dont open should be defunded, and that money given for parents and students use.

Law officers have been killed, maimed, and allegedly blinded by Antifa-Black Lives Matter thugs. Los Angeles police grew tired of Antifa women attacking them verbally and physically and retaliated with arrests and body slamming them to the ground. Police deprived by politicians of non-lethal crowd control weapons have refused to provide security at public events.

As others have observed, Democrats are worried that voters are increasingly angry and rejecting the mostly peaceful Antifa-BLM rioter claim. The latest Leftist lunacy is that the anarchist violence is led by white supremacists and federal police.

President Trump is blamed by Democrats and the media for the riots and China virus. Trump fights back against attempts to demonize and remove him from office. Democrats dont accept election results if they lose.

Supporters of Trump didnt put him in office to compromise with his antagonists. His supporters want him to stop destructive Leftist policies and drain the Deep State swamp of globalists, DOJ/FBI seditionists, and elitist media and academic extremists who side with Communist China, They are the existential threats to America, not alleged human-caused climate change.

Eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson said, America doesnt have to be perfect to be good, and those who try to expunge American history are a minority of the population who dont care about icons and statues, but only the humiliation of political opponents and acquisition of political power.

Noted historian Arthur Herman believes President Trump has dealt successfully with unprecedented domestic crisis and global issues, has challenged the wisdom and decisions of so-called experts, and will be supported in the election of 2020 by voters who will never judge Trump as harshly as the media does. Herman said President Obama sought to manage American decline, while Trump seeks to restore American pride and economic growth.

American Thinker columnist Trevor Thomas summarized it well: Ignorant mandates, businesses and schools closed, statues torn down, knees at the National Anthem, hateful acts, and violence toward police further motivates me to cast my ballot for Donald Trump.

Hopefully, the predicted huge numbers of the Silent and Silenced Majority get to the polls to reelect President Trump and crush the anti-American radical Left. As voters increasingly conclude that the Democrats, Antifa, and BLM are the cause of the chaos, the election should tilt to Trump.

The insurrection must be defeated because, as Civil War president Abraham Lincoln asserted, A House (nation) divided against itself cannot stand.

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What a dangerously stupid notion. You might as well, Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War!, for that is certainly what would happen if the police were defunded. In such a disorganized and dangerous world, civilization itself would soon follow the police authorities into oblivion.

At this juncture, I need to make an important point: This is not about George Floyd, nor his family and friends, nor those who have come together in anger, sorrow, and solidarity with those who knew George personally. Nor those who choose to protest strenuously but peaceably!

What this is about are the throwers-of-Molotov-cocktails, the anarchists, the insurrectionists, and other assorted terrorists.

Im talking about the self-righteous barbarians who have been going around blithely torching businesses large and small, defacing or destroying important landmarks, religious buildings, and anything else that can be defaced or burned. Often done in Floyds name, the barbarians, in truth, do not give a damn about George Floyd. What they really want is radical change, possibly some form of alternative government one that is conducive to their own advancement. Or better still a state of perpetual anarchy to replace the prevailing peace and tranquility. As I said, I suspect that some of these uncouth barbarians harbor dreams of becoming authority figures in a brave new world. God forbid.

Obviously, the police are a vital bulwark against civil unrest and all manner of criminal activity. A case that comes to mind arose in September 2009; it involved a group of terrorists led by a man named Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan-American citizen with militant Islamic leanings. He and his small band sought to bring death and destruction to New York City subways. An NYPD/FBI joint task force thwarted the plot and arrested the individuals involved. Now I ask you, how could a defunded NYPD have been at all helpful in spoiling Zazis plans? (Yes, its a rhetorical question. I also admit to having strayed slightly from my stated purpose, but then I needed an extreme example of lawlessness to show how important the police really are.)

Now, who are the barbarians? They are in groups like Antifa, who place themselves at the forefront of unrest, wherever it may appear. Antifa members are cowards, covering their faces with black masks to avoid identification. These self-appointed, wanna-be ninjas gang up on defenseless targets, whom they attack like wolves: four or five Antifa members mugging each victim, and each victim is an individual who doesnt buy the barbarians nihilistic bulls*** philosophy.

The latest barbarian fad is to destroy or deface statues supposedly representing evil Americans. What a load of priggish crap! In their impatience and reckless carelessness, Antifa (and followers) display a woeful ignorance of American history. How else could you explain the defilement of Matthias Baldwins statue in Philadelphia? Baldwin was a noted abolitionist. Go figure!

Having written about the miscreants activities and goals, I turn now to a brief appraisal of the police authorities. And in doing so, I will bring the discussion to the local level by mentioning the Gloversville Police Department.

I moved from Montclair, N.J. to Gloversville in 2002 the cost of living in the tri-state area having become too costly for my wallet. However, having lived in Montclair for 44 years, I had ample time to familiarize myself with the towns affairs.

Its a very wealthy town and can afford the best in police protection.

I suspected that Gloversville would not be able to live up to Montclairs example. I could not have been more wrong. I have found that, as with Montclairs police force, the local constabulary is well-trained, with its officers exhibiting courteousness, professionalism, and intelligence. However, if you are drunk and obnoxious, or combative as some people are, you might not witness the courteous side of the officers.

Thumbs up then for the Gloversville police! But lets go one better: Local residents and businesses might donate funds to provide our police with body-cams. Such a plan would benefit almost everyone.

Meanwhile, our country is at a turning point; what we do today will determine our childrens tomorrow for better or for worse.

THOMAS CARL NAST

Gloversville

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