RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/dubious-peaceful-protestors-bruce-thornton/

Ever since the start of the protests and riots over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, commentators both progressive and conservative have claimed that “peaceful protestors” who are “justifiably” angry over the callous and deadly treatment of Floyd were being “hijacked” by violent “outsiders” like Antifa. Especially on the progressive media, phrases like “peaceful protestors” or “peaceful protests” have been serially repeated like mantras by television news talking-heads––Google both phrases and you’ll get about 5 million hits.

The trouble with this verbal tic is that it is misleading at best, and often false. “Peaceful protestors” have been seen coordinating with rioters to help them avoid the police, and acting as human shields. Indeed such coordination between shock-troops and “non-violent” political actors has typified revolutionary movements since the French Revolution. And there have been only a few examples of truly peaceful protestors separating themselves from the rioters and looters, or issuing public condemnations. But they have been overwhelmed by the thousands of protestors intermingling with the “hijackers.”

There’s an obvious reason why the progressive media keep chanting this phrase: the fourth protection of citizens in the First Amendment is “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The use of “peaceful” asserts that these protests are protected by the First Amendment.

But consider these protests from the perspective of that phrase. First, there is the large number of violent looters and rioters intermingled with protestors who may not be acting violently, but also may be helping rioters. Again, just by remaining in the streets where violent thugs are rampaging, the “peaceful” protestors have violated the Constitutional proviso “peaceably” since they have made it extremely difficult for the police to do their jobs and restore peace. And especially at night, how can the cops sort them out? How do the police know that screaming and hysterical “peaceful” protestors haven’t also been throwing rocks or frozen bottles of water at them, or a few minutes earlier have been looting the Nike store? Don’t the “peaceful protesters” sticking around all this violence rather suggests an age-old tactic of rioters using acquiescent “innocent bystanders” as cover for their mayhem?

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/08/04/dr-scott-barbour-from-americas-frontline-doctors-has-a-plan-for-hydroxychloroquine-n749323

Dr. Scott Barbour participated in the forum with America’s Frontline Doctors in Washington, D.C., last week. Their video promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine, school reopenings, and ending lockdowns went viral in real-time. It was almost immediately censored by several big-tech companies, who said that the information shared violated guidance from the WHO, CDC, and FDA.

This assertion about hydroxychloroquine is kind of a smokescreen. While it is true that major studies were canceled after a study was published in The Lancet, which concluded that administering hydroxychloroquine is dangerous, in a stunning move, The Lancet issued a retraction, saying that the “veracity of the data underlying this observational study could not be assured by the study authors.”

HCQ Helps Contain COVID-19 Cases: New Evidence and a Major Retraction

Dr. Barbour has trouble articulating just how unprecedented this is. To have a peer-reviewed study retracted by respected journals is stunning and disturbing. He is afraid it indicates some level of corruption in the publication process. It is also strange that once these studies were retracted, the guidance from the health agencies did not change.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/leftists_go_after_two_plus_two_equals_four.html

Those on the left continues to believe that, if they can erase the line between real and imaginary, they can convince people that socialism will work.

In George Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, the concept that two plus two equals four had extraordinary symbolic weight. The State, as embodied in Big Brother, controlled everything that people could think or say.

Part of how the rebellious Winston Smith fought back against this totalitarianism was to remind himself that, no matter what the State said, two plus two did, in fact, equal four. To the all-powerful State, though, Smith’s belief in objective math was a threatening form of insanity. The State therefore used a mixture of torture and cajoling to force Smith to embrace a State-sanctioned “sanity” that denied reality:

“You are a slow learner, Winston.”

“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”

“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

By the novel’s end, with the State’s torture having completely broken him, Smith readily conceded that, yes, if the State said that two plus two equals five, that would be the correct answer.

https://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2020/08/surrender.html

It was bound to happen sooner or later, given all the Defund the Police propaganda  in various states and cities. Minneapolis police, in its last hurray, have advised residents to just give criminals what they want tn and to offer no resistance. If there’s violence, the police – what’s left of them – will not respond or offer help. The announcement reads, in part with homilies about their being concerned with “your safety.”

.+ Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet.

= Do as they say, Your safety to most important.. (but not your rights or the sanctity of your life and property).

Suppose the criminals wanted to assault your wife, or kidnap your daughter, and not merely take your purse or wallet? Would you be justified in fighting back?

Barely, If at all. I can see the headline now: Resident arrested and charged with harming and jeopardizing the lives of his “guests.” : Samuel Brown has been charged by the “Publidc Safety Committee” with resisting the desires of “peaceful”  citizens and making an unlawful citizen’s arrest, of brandishing a gun and a knife, and faces a  $199 fine and five years of community service.