It Is Time for America to Make a Stand

You sick of this yet? Finally?

Townhall

"We have had enough. American patriots have stood idly by while the International Left has swept through our culture like the Germans swept through France in 1914, burning and slaughtering in their relentless drive toward Paris. Passivity has been our most demonstrable quality as the icons of our history – Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant – have been attacked, small businesses destroyed, and innocent Americans assaulted and threatened. It is time to summon our manhood, just as the French did at the Battle of the Marne, finally saying, “Enough!” against an Imperial German army hell-bent on conquest.

Sick of this yet?

"History reminds us that antithetical forces vie in a never-ending human struggle for dominance. The forces of good advance and retreat. The forces of evil advance and retreat. We have been watching evil advance since May 25 under the guise of doing good. It is time for good to make a stand.
. . . 
"Clearly most of those now engaged in the cultural assault, physical destruction, and intimidation in America today only care about one thing – the destruction of America, because they hate it. Pure and simple.
"As we celebrate this Independence Day, it is time for all Americans of every stripe – black, white, Asian, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Democrat, Republican – to make a stand and say, “Enough!' ”  More...

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St. Louis Couple Who Drew Guns to Protect Property Now Under Investigation

Presidential candidate Joe Biden himself told us, "Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun"

Legal Insurrection

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner needs to read Missouri’s castle doctrine.

"St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner announced her “office is currently working with the public and police to investigate” the couple who drew their weapons to defend their property from protesters.

Yes, Gardner is investigating the couple. Not the people who broke through the iron gate. The couple.

. . . 

"Mark and Patricia McCloskey, personal injury lawyers, have a different story (emphasis mine):

St. Louis police said the couple had called police for help once they saw the large crowd enter Portland Place. The McCloskeys had been at home and heard a loud commotion coming from the street; they went to investigate and saw “a large group of subjects forcefully break an iron gate marked with ‘No Trespassing’ and ‘Private Street’ signs,” police said.

“The group began yelling obscenities and threats of harm to both victims,” police said. “When the victims observed multiple subjects who were armed, they then armed themselves and contacted police.”

"The police labeled “it as a case of trespassing and fourth-degree assault by intimidation.”

I think Gardner needs an education on Missouri’s castle doctrine (emphasis mine):

Anders Walker, a constitutional law professor at St. Louis University, said that although it’s “very dangerous” to engage protesters with guns, the homeowners broke no laws by brandishing or pointing weapons at them because Portland Place is a private street. He said the McCloskeys are protected by Missouri’s Castle Doctrine, which allows people to use deadly force to defend private property.

“At any point that you enter the property, they can then, in Missouri, use deadly force to get you off the lawn,” Walker said, calling the state’s Castle Doctrine a “force field” that “indemnifies you, and you can even pull the trigger in Missouri.” . . .

"Met the protestors with a "violent assault"?  They were in the middle of dinner at their home!  Gardner watches too much CNN, I'd say and assumed this was just a "merry caravan".

 Isaiah 5:20 tells us: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Devastating: Father of Young Man Killed in Seattle's Anarchist Zone Has Been Ignored by the Mayor

Katie Pavlich  "Nearly two weeks ago, 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson was killed in Seattle's anarchist, "cop free" zone. He was shot and paramedics were unable to administer care after being blocked by individuals running the area.
"During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night, Anderson's father revealed Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, who endorsed the zone as a "summer of love," hasn't bothered to call him. He wasn't informed of his son's death by Seattle officials or police, but instead by friends who live out of town.
" 'The only way I found out is two of his friends came and told me," Horace Lorenzo Anderson said, eventually breaking down in tears. "The police department, they never came. My son's address, his ID, him personally. Him as a person. Somebody should have come and knocked on my door. Still to this day should have been like, come and talked to me and let me know about my son. To this day I really, I don't know nothing. I'm still sitting here. I haven't heard nothing from nobody...I haven't heard from the mayor. I haven't heard from the police department. I just now recently, just because I went on tv, they reached out to me and let me know what they're doing now but my son has been deceased for two weeks."
" 'It's like they didn't care. It didn't matter. I haven't heard from the mayor. I haven't heard from the police department, no city, nobody. Only thing I heard from is what you guys are hearing from me now," he pleaded." . . .

Tucker Carlson may be one of very few courageous conservatives in America

Tony Branco

Tucker Carlson Interviews St. Louis Man Who Defended His Home From BLM Mob, Here’s What He Said   "Tucker Carlson interviewed Mark McCloskey tonight on his top-rated program. In the segment, McCloskey was able to give his side of the story and share what he was feeling as an angry mob broke into his neighborhood and appeared just feet from his house. He’s now facing potential “assault” charges for “intimidating” the group that the local DA described as peaceful protesters.

"Before McCloskey came on, though, Carlson laid out exactly who that DA is. You’ll be less than shocked to learn that she’s another product of George Soros’ recent campaign to install far-left, anti-law and order DAs across the country. The billionaire poured millions into local races and it has reaped wins across bluer urban centers. As Carlson notes, only 23% of the criminal cases sent to Kim Gardner by the St. Louis Police Department were ultimately charged and pursued. Just as we’ve seen from prosecutors in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere, this DA sees herself as a social justice warrior, and any attempts to critique her abandonment of her duty results in charges of racism."  

"(For more background on Gardner, click here and here)." . . .

Tucker Carlson, now officially the king of cable news, delivers historic challenge to GOP

Tucker Carlson now has the highest ratings of any program in cable news history, adding extra weight to his historic program last night, in which he laid out the peril ahead if Biden wins and a clear strategy for the clueless GOP to follow in order to prevent that from happening.
"If you missed Carlson's opening monologue last night, it is embedded below in full, all 10 minutes and 48 seconds of it." . . .

Boycott Fail: Tucker Carlson Continues to Destroy the Competition, Sets Cable News Viewership Record  . . . "Carlson has made it a point in his monologues over the last month or so to point out how the push to shut down conservative voices over disagreement was worse than it had ever been. He’s also frequently called out widespread leadership failures on both sides of the aisle, noting that Democrats and not enough Republicans were standing up to the mob rule and general lawlessness we’ve seen from liberal so-called “peaceful protesters” all across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

"His message is clearly resonating with people who are feeling frustrated and hopeless over the chaos they are seeing taking place in their own back yards. As a result, viewers are now tuning in in record numbers." . . .  Sister Toldjah

New GOP Ad Issues Powerful Warning About Democrats Threatening American Culture

PJ Media

"On Wednesday, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) released a powerful new ad warning about vandals and rioters destroying a key monument in American culture — the presidents on Mount Rushmore. While the vandals are not likely to actually deface Mount Rushmore anytime soon, their iconoclastic movement has already targeted each of the four presidents on the monument — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

"The ad, “Erasing History,” shows the presidents on Mount Rushmore disappearing, one by one, as vandals tarnish monuments to each of those presidents, and as “America the Beautiful” plays somberly in the background. The ad appears to be a tribute to an America not just under siege but actively being dismantled by roving bands of rioters set on damning the entire American project as an exercise in oppression.

“‘ 'Erasing History’ is a poignant reminder about the dangers of the current ‘cancel culture,’ the threat to our nation and the rule of law posed by anarchists and lawless liberals,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement. “The 2020 election will be a referendum on law and order – and the choice is clear.”

“ 'Americans who want to protect their freedom, history, and the rule of law will vote for Republican AGs,” Piper argued, claiming that Republican attorneys general stand in “stark contrast to Democrats, complicit with today’s cancel culture and various attempts to erase Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln from our history books.”

“ 'It’s absurd to think Democrats could be offended by Mount Rushmore or the Fourth of July. However, today’s cancel culture has absolutely nothing to do with promoting equality or ensuring domestic tranquility and everything to do with creating division and destroying anything and everything lawless liberals think they might hate,” Piper added. “Today, their targets are our founding fathers, our flag, and public safety. As a parent, one must ask, what will they target tomorrow?” . . . Read more...

The Myth of Righteous Vandalism; "And why historians should not endorse it."

Destroying historical monuments erodes our knowledge of the reasons and sentiments of our predecessors who espoused them, and of how far we have come.                            

The American Spectator  "The fevered frenzy against public monuments has caused varied reactions. Among scholars, the main symptom is seemingly contagious dispassion. When a New York Times columnist spoke with art historian Erin Thompson, for example, their interview closed with Thompson recommending the use of chains for those interested in inverting large objects. She appears to have an affinity for neither art nor history. Thompson may have caught the bug from archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who recently — and apparently satirically — briefed mobs struggling to dislodge obelisks. “It is sometimes complained,” drawls historian William Cavert, “that such acts erase history.” According to him, that is a popular grievance against the destruction of statues that historians and scholars almost universally dismiss.

"Destroying historical monuments erodes our knowledge of the reasons and sentiments of our predecessors who espoused them, and of how far we have come.
"To inoculate the rest of us, let’s try to inhale and expose ourselves to the astonishing notion that these scholars seem to endorse: that statues are useless and that we derive historical knowledge only from archives, documents, and “objects preserved in libraries or museums.” Only if this is true — if statues can bear no intellectual or artistic value — would our indifference be justified. But if there is any value inherent in objects that a community once used publicly and symbolically, we should reconsider.
"First, the physical evidence of Confederate monuments is what has generated much of the indignation towards them. This evidence directly contributes to historical knowledge.
"Second, even if all Americans today deem artifacts from a certain era to be worthless, we shouldn’t decide on behalf of future generations.
"Third, landmarks are inseparable from citizens’ intergenerational identities." . . .

CNN's Cuomo vs. St. Louis Home Defender: You Are The Face Of "White Resistance" To Black Lives Matter

Real Clear Politics  "CNN's Chris Cuomo immediately deemed the St. Louis couple that faced off with Black Lives Matters protesters encroaching on their property as a racial incident in a gotcha-style interview with Mark McCloskey, the husband, on Tuesday's edition of his CNN program.
" 'How do you feel about becoming the face of political resistance to the Black Lives Matter movement?" was Cuomo's first question.
" 'First of all, that’s a completely ridiculous statement," McCloskey responded. "I'm not the face of anything opposing to Black Lives Matters movement. I was a person scared for my life who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood. I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate. I didn't care what color they were. I didn't care what their motivation was. I was frightened. I was assaulted and I was in imminent fear that they would run me over, kill me, burn my house."
"McCloskey continued, "To give you context, on June 2nd, I watched the city burn, I watched the 7-11 get smashed in, looted and burned for 40 minutes on live television with nobody showing up to do anything. I realized at that time, we're on our own, when bad things happen, they unpredictably turn really bad, really fast. That same night, retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn was murdered. These things get very bad very quickly. And when those people came through the gate, when it was a mob, I didn't take the time to see their birth certificates or anything else, I was defending my life, my house, my wife and what I spent 32 years building there."
"Throughout the interview, Cuomo continually doubted McCloskey's fear that his and his wife's lives were at risk and attempted to poke holes in how much of a security threat the protesters actually posed. He told Cuomo the reason why the protesters weren't able to get the steps of his home is not because they weren't going to loot it, it is because he and his wife brandished their weapons." . . .

Antifa's A Laugh Riot – Until It Comes For You!

Now, hordes of these cretins have taken control of the streets, and the only pushback is the president cowering in the White House, tweeting “LAW & ORDER!” Yes, Churchill retreated to a basement, too — in Whitehall, where he planned a war that saved the world. He didn’t tweet out “HITLER! BAD!” For 3 1/2 years, antifa was never punished for anything it did. To the contrary, they were praised. Private citizens who fought back were defamed as “white supremacists” and imprisoned.

Ann Coulter  "I wonder if Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray and Heather MacDonald are reacting to these antifa riots the same way I am.
"I mean, not that anyone of us would enjoy the sight of reporters being trapped, chased through the streets and physically assaulted by antifa goons. Or liberal Democrats having to defend their homes with guns in Saint Louis, MO. Or the president hiding in the White House bunker as antifa lays waste to Lafayette Park. Or the mayor of Seattle WA, finally shutting down the CHAZ “summer of love” when the mob came to her house.
"They’re all “peaceful protesters” — until they come near you.
"Imagine that instead of being a president, mayor or reporter in the vicinity of mentally unbalanced, historically illiterate, thuggishly violent lunatics … imagine that you, personally, are the window they want to smash.
"Now you know what it’s like to be a conservative trying to give a speech on a college campus today. (Thanks for all the help, guys!)
"Neither the conservative media nor elected Republicans gave a crap about the left-wing paramilitary force that’s been mobilizing since Trump’s election.
"Through it all, conservatives stuck their heads in the sand and rationalized insane liberal violence. It was the path of least resistance — and also a smart business move. Cowards could pitch themselves as the “reasonable” ones, then sit back and watch as their more popular conservative competitors were deplatformed, shadow-banned and outright canceled." . . . Full article.    ........Much more at the Tunnel Wall

'Merry Caravan' Of Minneapolis Protesters Were 'Entirely Peaceful' (Bottle thrown). CNN!

Texas couple dies from coronavirus while holding hands, family says: 'Off to a better place'

Fox News

Curtis and Betty Tarpley were married 53 years and died only 50 minutes apart

"An elderly couple in Texas reportedly died last week only 50 minutes apart from one other, while holding hands at a Fort Worth hospital, as each of them succumbed to complications from the novel coronavirus.
"Curtis Tarpley, 79 and his wife Betty, 80, passed away at the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, according to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. They'd been married for 53 years and had two children, Tim and Tricia.
"Both Tim and Tricia said they knew their parents were ready to depart in the days leading up to their deaths. Each had underlying health conditions that did not improve during their time in treatment, and they were both mentally prepared for the end.
" 'My mother always said she didn’t want to live to be 100 and she very much believed this world was temporary, and it was a stop on going off to a better place,” Tricia explained. “She knew something better was coming and she was fine with that.” . . .

KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov Warns Us About SJWs

Religio-Political Talk "Yuri Bezmenov (1939 – 1993), known by the alias Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India, but at the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow’s policies. He decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his anticommunist lectures and books from the 1980s — here are some adapted excerpts:. . . "

Our Millennial Taliban, like the radical Islamists, cannot build, only destroy

Has America at last achieved third-world status? Violent, ignorant street protests, cities burning, freedom of speech suppressed; a corrupt press that is a tool of those burning and looting, those defending against threats attacked and jailed; relatives of those standing up against violence losing their jobs. And the willing supporters of the evil in our nation are the ever-submissive Democrat Party.
You cannot stand President Trump? He alone stands between us and all the above. TD

Boston Arts Commission Votes to Remove Emancipation Memorial  "The Boston Arts Commission voted 8-0 to remove the Emancipation Memorial out of Boston’s Park Square and into temporary storage.

"At least professionals will take it down instead of the mob?" . . .

DHS Deploys Special Federal Unit To Protect Monuments Over July 4 Weekend Amid Vandalism Fears

Quisling Conservatives

Quisling: When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, Quisling attempted a pro-German coup against the government.  "His betrayal of Norway to Germany has made his name into a label for all collaborators and traitors. "

"...a well-oiled weathervane"

William R. Hawkins  . . . "Mitt Romney also falls into this category. Though the Utah Senator has not gone all the way to endorse Biden, he has declared he will not vote to re-elect President Trump. He did vote for one of the articles of impeachment against the president, the only Republican to do so. It should be remembered that the last time the left was on a rampage of today’s scale was fifty years ago when a GOP President was impeached and resigned. The result was the chaos of the 1970s, one of the worst decades in our history, marked by defeat overseas (which led to the slaughter of millions across Southeast Asia) and stagflation at home(which ruined the lives of millions). And there were some foolish Republicans then, as well, who aided and abetted the catastrophe."

Mitt Romney marching in a Black Lives Matter demonstration

. . . "Rogue Republicans who think that by electing Biden they can turn the GOP back to a pre-Trump orientation are exhibiting a blindness to how the world is evolving both at home and abroad. President Trump tapped into trends that developed independently of his candidacy and will continue to grow beyond the 2020 election. The Left’s virulent campaign against President Trump stems from the fact that he represents an approach different from the standard Republicanism that the left has grown confident in beating. President Trump’s stress on national unity and the common good strikes directly at the left’s class warfare model (with its dangerous tactic of provoking racial discord) that rejects the very concept of America. The left prefers opponents who accept their assigned role in the class warfare narrative as selfish bastards with no social conscious or higher loyalty.

"In contrast, a leader who elevates his vision to providing “sovereignty, prosperity and security” to the American people as a whole, a people who are united because they all have the “same red blood” regardless of class or race (as President Trump has stated time and again) poses a challenge the Left cannot handle." . . .