Here's that aforementioned <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462">NBC News report </a>on the exciting adventures of Hunter Biden.

<blockquote>
	
		Biden made $5.8 million, more than half his total earnings from 2013 to 2018, from two deals with Chinese business interests.
</blockquote>


	There's little new in the details themselves, but they're a helpful reminder that the Biden crime family is in hock to the Peeps in a big way.

<blockquote>
	
		A review of the personal and corporate emails on Biden’s hard drive yield little information about any business he conducted on behalf of Hudson West III, and his autobiography doesn’t discuss his Chinese business dealings in any detail.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Which is itself revealing.


	What are you doing to get paid millions of dollars that you (or more likely your Chinese partners who have more self-control) aren't putting in writing?

<blockquote>
	
		In 2018, Chinese prosecutors accused Ye Jianming of “economic crimes,” including alleged fraud and bribery, and detained him for questioning. He hasn’t been seen in public since.

	
		A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington told NBC News, “We are not familiar with the case you mentioned, and I’m afraid we can’t offer information on this.”

	
		According to the Republican Senate report, Hudson West III, CEFC and another firm were involved in certain transactions that were&nbsp;“among those identified as potential efforts to layer funds.”

	
		The U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network describes the layering of funds as “separating the illegally obtained money from its criminal source by layering it through a series of financial transactions, which makes it difficult to trace the money back to its original source.”

	
		But the report doesn’t say whether or not Hunter Biden was personally involved in any transactions that were suggested to involve “layering.”

	
		Biden also appears to have done work for one of Ye’s business associates. Patrick Ho was convicted in U.S. federal court of bribing top officials in Chad and Uganda in pursuit of oil deals in those countries starting in September 2014. A jury found that Ho, while working for CEFC, bribed or attempted to bribe officials as much as $2 million. He was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 and then expelled from the U.S. at the end of his prison term.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	The underlying question is what was Hunter Biden and the larger clan doing to make all that money from these guys?


	It's implausible that Hunter Biden, an unstable crackhead with no self-control, was getting paid a fortune for any skill other than his political connections. If Joe Biden had been a retired Senate member, it's unlikely that Hunter would have gotten this kind of payday.


	There's no scenario in which this was anything except an attempt to use Joe Biden's crackhead son for his political connections. And those connections all go through Joe.

Hunter Biden Made Most of His Money From China

Here's that aforementioned NBC News report on the exciting adventures of Hunter Biden.


	
		Biden made $5.8 million, more than half his total earnings

Hunter Biden Made Most of His Money From China

First the New York Times and the Washington Post, now NBC News.


	Before we dig into the details of the NBC News report, let me note that it is once again a mainstream media news report digging into a story that the media denied so vocally in 2020 that it was censored across social media platforms as disinformation.


	<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462">Now suddenly</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		NBC News obtained&nbsp;a copy of Biden’s laptop hard drive&nbsp;from a representative of Rudy Giuliani and examined Biden’s business dealings from 2013 to 2018 based on the information available on the hard drive and the scope of the documents released by the Senate.
</blockquote>


	NBC News' experts all have unflattering things to say about Hunter Biden.

<blockquote>
	
		Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, said there is a national security risk when foreign powers like China see an opportunity to get close to someone like Biden. “It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better,” said Figliuzzi, now an NBC News contributor. “Better still if that target has already compromised himself.”

	
		NBC&nbsp;News&nbsp;analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former Justice Department official, said that Biden’s paying what he owes&nbsp;could&nbsp;even be seen as an admission of criminal violations. Not paying taxes for many years, rather than one or two, Rosenberg said, helps establish intent, which can otherwise be a struggle for prosecutors in white-collar cases.

	
		Paying the bill, Rosenberg said, might help Biden if he faced sentencing and “mitigate some of the damage, but it doesn’t undo the crime. That would be like returning money to a bank that you robbed. You still robbed the bank.”
</blockquote>


	It's almost as if Hunter Biden is a Republican.


	NBC News is the latest in a series of mainstream media outlets to run extensive pieces digging into the laptop materials. Why?&nbsp;


	In 2020, the Hunter Biden stuff was opposition research against a candidate the media opposes. Now, it's opposition research against a candidate some in the media would like to see step down after his first term.


	Joe Biden keeps talking about running again. It's no coincidence that the media got interested in Hunter Biden's laptop as part of an emerging consensus that Joe Biden shouldn't run again.


	As<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/democrat-plan-stop-joe-biden-daniel-greenfield/"> I wrote in</a>,&nbsp;The Democrat Plan to Stop Joe Biden, "Biden’s son is the leverage. During the election, Democrats and their media feverishly suppressed any coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop only to now revive the story. In recent weeks and months, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;have legitimized the laptop."

<blockquote>
	
		"Democrats and the media are best served with Schrödinger's Hunter, not indicted or exculpated, but the subject of an ongoing investigation that can be used as leverage on his father, that holds out possible consequences for the son without severely damaging Joe’s election chances.&nbsp;

	
		They would like Joe Biden to say that he’ll be stepping down after one term and for the Hunter Biden investigation to go away with a slap on the wrist."&nbsp;
</blockquote>

The Mainstream Media is Suddenly Very Interested in Opposition Research on Hunter Biden

First the New York Times and the Washington Post, now NBC News.


	Before we dig into the details of the NBC News report, let me note that it is once again

The Mainstream Media is Suddenly Very Interested in Opposition Research on Hunter Biden

The difference between disinformation and information is often a matter of perspective.&nbsp;


	Disinformation is an Orwellian term which seeks to delegitimize opposing or different points of view by treating them as a "fundamental crisis of democracy". The Disinformation Governance Board, an illegitimate and disturbing institution, and even contemplating such a thing was an offense against the First Amendment.


	And, appropriately enough, what brought the Disinformation Governance Board down was exactly information of the sort that it would like to get rid of.


	Critics made Nina Jankowicz, her personality, her videos and her views, an issue. And they did so successfully enough that the board will get reset.


	It will, like every movie monster and slasher movie villain, be back. Anything else is unthinkable.


	Ever since Dems embraced the notion of a&nbsp;disinformation crisis after losing the 2016 presidential election, the concept has become crucial to their war on free speech and efforts to monopolize online narrative spaces.


	But&nbsp;&nbsp;Nina Jankowicz likely won't be a part of it.

The Disinformation Board was Brought Down by Information

The difference between disinformation and information is often a matter of perspective.&nbsp;


	Disinformation is an Orwellian term which seeks to

The Disinformation Board was Brought Down by Information

Elon Musk threatening to hold off on a purchase of Twitter because of spam is an interesting argument. Granted there are legal disclosure issues, but we've known that Twitter is bots for a very long time.


	The "bot" argument often comes up, It's also mostly meaningless.

<blockquote>
	
		Half of Joe Biden's Twitter Followers Are Fake, Audit Reveals - Newsweek
</blockquote>


	Like his real-life followers.&nbsp;


	But Twitter really is just a bunch of bots. Much like Amazon reviewers. The problem really took off when influencers came into being. A new wave of sophisticated campaigns were initially used to swell follower accounts in a crude way, but then became machines distributing messages and ideas on a massive scale.


	Much of this isn't even political.


	Whether you're selling one side or another of a war, or dishwasher detergent or a brand of cosmetics, you need followers to bolster your influence and spread your message.


	The bot armies routinely follow popular accounts and interact with them to create the illusion of legitimacy. The folks replying to everything with canned remarks or animated gifs may be real, but they may also be bots.


	That means most popular accounts have a high ratio of bot followers, it means that any popular trend with have bots attach to it, and it means that any company doing Twitter marketing is likely going to make us of bots to amplify its message.


	Basically, bots are to Twitter what spam is to email. It's an inescapable reality.&nbsp;

Twitter is a Bunch of Bots

Elon Musk threatening to hold off on a purchase of Twitter because of spam is an interesting argument. Granted there are legal disclosure issues, but we've

Twitter is a Bunch of Bots

This may not be the incredibly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-frustrated-constantly-explaining-things-to-trump-fiona-hill-2022-5?op=1&amp;scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4">damaging argument</a> that Fiona Hill thought it would be.


	Hill, the British NSC adviser on Russia, a leftist currently at Brookings, keeps trying to bash Trump and praise the Democrats, but this isn't having quite the intended effect. Hill tries to explain away the obvious problem of why Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama and Biden, but not Trump.&nbsp;


	Apparently, he didn't like having to explain things and did like easy surrenders and predictable weakness.

<blockquote>
	
		Russian President Vladimir Putin often became frustrated with President Donald Trump over his lack of knowledge on geopolitical issues, Fiona Hill said, adding that this played into Moscow's decision on the timing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

	
		One of the reasons Putin invaded Ukraine with President Joe Biden in the White House was that he expected the US to "sue for peace" and thought it would be better to deal with Biden than trying to negotiate with someone like Trump, whom the Russian leader had "to explain everything to all the time,"

	
		"He thought that somebody like Biden — who's a transatlanticist, who knows all about NATO, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs — would be the right person to engage with," Hill said.

	
		"You could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump because he had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesn't like to do that," Hill said, adding: "Even though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that he's engaging with."
</blockquote>


	Again, not the compelling pro-Biden argument that Hill thought it would be.


	Seems like maybe we need someone in the White House whom Putin doesn't want to have to deal with rather than the predictable fellow who will surrender on cue.


	Mind you, this does inconveniently rub up against the whole, "Putin wants Trump in the White House" conspiracy theory that's been at the heart of every Dem attack from the Steele dossier to the Mueller investigation.

Fiona Hill: Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Biden, Because He's "Predictable", Would Surrender

This may not be the incredibly damaging argument that Fiona Hill thought it would be.


	Hill, the British NSC adviser on Russia, a leftist currently at

Fiona Hill: Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Biden, Because He's "Predictable", Would Surrender

During his first few days as President,&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;named Robert Malley as his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-iran-envoy-int-idUSKBN29X2XX">U.S. Special Envoy for Iran</a>. Malley has a long history of antipathy toward Israel, as well as a profoundly deep reserve of patience with Iran and other enemies of the Jewish state. Most notably, he helped&nbsp;<a href="https://zoa.org/2021/01/10442041-zoa-opposes-robert-malley-serving-as-special-envoy-on-iran-or-any-position/">negotiate</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/iran-nuclear-deal">Iran nuclear deal</a>&nbsp;of 2015 — known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — and he subsequently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/10-conflicts-watch-2021">opposed</a>&nbsp;the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” sanctions against Tehran. From the start of his tenure with the Biden Administration, Malley&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MehdiHasanShow/status/1419463490096467969?s=20">called</a>&nbsp;for the U.S. to return to the JCPOA as swiftly as possible, and to fully dismantle the sanctions that Trump had reimposed on Iran.&nbsp; &nbsp; 
	 
	Talks between the Biden Administration and Iran began formally in Vienna in April 2021, but were paused shortly before Iran’s presidential elections in June. Then, in late November, Tehran dispatched to Vienna a new negotiating team whose diplomats made more demands and offered fewer concessions than had their predecessors. By December 3, the talks had <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/talks-to-restore-iran-nuclear-deal-stall-11638538912">stalled</a>. Six days later, Malley, conveying the Biden Administration’s desperate desire to strike some sort of agreement, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/9/us-privileging-path-of-diplomacy-with-iran-biden-envoy-says">stated</a> that U.S. negotiators would be willing to sit down with their Iranian counterparts “at any time and any place” – preferably “face-to-face.” America, said Malley, was “prepared to get back into the deal as soon as possible – as soon as Iran is.” “Then,” he added, “we would lift all of the sanctions that are inconsistent with the JCPOA.” 
	 
	But as of today, no deal with Iran seems to be on the horizon. As recently as March 27, Malley <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/senior-adviser-irans-khamenei-says-nuclear-deal-with-world-powers-imminent-2022-03-27/">admitted</a> to having little faith that the JCPOA could be revived anytime soon. “I can't be confident it is imminent,” he lamented, noting how hard it is to bridge the gap.” 
	 
	Americans can only hope and pray that Malley and his cohorts are not successful at reviving the JCPOA – or anything even remotely resembling it. Consider some of the highly troubling elements of the original agreement:

<ul>
	<li>
		Iran was permitted to keep and operate more than 5,000 nuclear&nbsp;<a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/iran-nuke-deal-ensures-iranian-centrifuges-continue-spinning/">centrifuges</a>, the machines necessary for enriching uranium to the degree necessary for the production of nuclear weapons.</li>
	<li>
		Iran received&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/17/7-devastating-facts-about-obamas-iran-nuclear-deal/">$150 billion</a>&nbsp;in revenue from sanctions relief, even though Obama-Biden acknowledged that Iran would likely use some portion of that money to fund its military and terrorist activities.</li>
	<li>
		Iran was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/iran-nuclear-deal-russia-china-weapons-deals-islamic-republic-continue-under-un-2007410">prohibited</a>&nbsp;from purchasing weapons from other countries for five years, and from buying missile technology for eight years. But there were two enormously significant exceptions: Russia and China could continue to make weapons deals with Iran.</li>
	<li>
		Iran was given the discretion to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/17/7-devastating-facts-about-obamas-iran-nuclear-deal/">block</a>&nbsp;international inspectors from its military installations.</li>
	<li>
		Only&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/iran-nuclear-programme-world-powers-historic-deal-lift-sanctions">inspectors</a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;countries&nbsp;that had diplomatic relations with Iran would be given access to Iranian nuclear sites. Thus, there would be no American inspectors.</li>
	<li>
		Sanctions were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander">lifted</a>&nbsp;on critical parts of Iran’s military, including a previously existing travel ban against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qasem-suleimani-iran-deal-2015-7">Qasem Suleimani</a>, leader&nbsp;of the terrorist Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.</li>
	<li>
		Iran would not be&nbsp;required&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/04/07/397933577/transcript-president-obamas-full-npr-interview-on-iran-nuclear-deal">renounce</a>&nbsp;terrorism against the United States, as the Obama-Biden Administration deemed such an expectation “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/14/daily-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-041415">unrealistic</a>.”</li>
	<li>
		Iran would not be required to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rejects-netanyahu-demand-for-iranian-recognition-of-israel/">affirm</a>&nbsp;its “clear and unambiguous … recognition of Israel’s right to exist” — a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178252">requirement</a>&nbsp;that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pleaded for.</li>
	<li>
		Whatever restrictions were placed on Iran’s nuclear program, would&nbsp;<a href="https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-iran-nuclear-deal-expiration-dates-and-consequences.pdf">expire</a>&nbsp;— due to so-called “sunset clauses” — at various times over the ensuing 5 to 11 years.</li>
</ul>


	In light of the fact that the man who helped negotiate the JCPOA monstrosity is today a key official in the Biden Administration, it is well worth exploring more deeply who this man actually is. 
	 
	Malley was born in 1963 and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=88&amp;x_article=1437">lived</a>&nbsp;in France from 1969-1980. His mother—a native New Yorker—worked for the&nbsp;United Nations&nbsp;delegation of the National Liberation Front,&nbsp;the leftist, anti-American political party that led the independence movement in Algeria in the 1950s and early ’60s. His father, the late&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2309">Simon Malley</a>, was a key figure&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Egyptian Communist Party. The elder Malley was bitterly anti-Israel;&nbsp;a confidante of PLO leader&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=650">Yasser Arafat</a>; an inveterate critic of “Western imperialism”; a supporter of various leftist revolutionary “liberation movements,” particularly the Palestinian cause; and a beneficiary of Soviet funding. He also published a radical&nbsp;<a href="https://www.camera.org/article/robert-malley-and-us-policy-on-israel/">magazine</a>&nbsp;about Africa, titled&nbsp;Afrique-Asie,&nbsp;which supported a variety of leftist “liberation movements” as well as the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 
	 
	Robert Malley earned a J.D. at&nbsp;Harvard Law School, which he&nbsp;<a href="http://forward.com/articles/12745/peace-negotiator-who-advised-obama-campaign-strike-/">attended</a>&nbsp;at the same time as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">Barack Obama</a>. Malley subsequently served as: a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080410151634/http:/www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1317&amp;l=1">member</a> of the U.S. National Security Council from 1994-96; National Security Advisor&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2299">Sandy Berger</a>’s executive assistant from 1996-98; and President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644">Bill Clinton</a>’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs from 1998-2001. In July 2000, Malley was a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/aug/09/camp-david-the-tragedy-of-errors/">member</a>&nbsp;of the U.S. peace team that participated in the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit">Camp David Summit</a>&nbsp;between Bill Clinton (who brokered the talks), Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/palestinian-authority-pa/">Palestinian Authority</a> Chairman Yasser Arafat. The talks ended without an agreement. 
	 
	Malley has written numerous <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=88&amp;x_article=1437">controversial articles</a>—some of which were co-authored with Hussein Agha, a former advisor to&nbsp;Arafat—blaming Israel and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14380">exonerating</a>&nbsp;Arafat for the failure at Camp David. For instance, in a July 2001 op-ed (titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/08/opinion/fictions-about-the-failure-at-camp-david.html">Fictions About the Failure at Camp David</a>”)&nbsp;which was published in the&nbsp;The&nbsp;New York Times, Malley alleged that Israeli—not Palestinian—inflexibility had caused the previous year’s peace talks to fail. 
	 
	Malley’s account of the Camp David negotiations is entirely inconsistent with the recollections of the key figures who participated in those talks, most notably then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross (Clinton’s Middle East envoy). According to Ross, the peace efforts failed for one reason only: because Arafat wanted them to fail. “[F]undamentally,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&amp;x_nameinnews=88&amp;x_article=1041">said Ross</a>, “I do not believe he [Arafat] can end the conflict. We had one critical clause in this agreement, and that clause was, this is the end of the conflict. Arafat’s whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause … [F]or him to end the conflict is to end himself…. Barak was able to reposition Israel internationally. Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it [peace] wasn’t … achievable was because Arafat wouldn’t accept.” 
	 
	In 2007, Malley&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hate-israel-yes-we-can-mark-hemingway/">became</a>&nbsp;a foreign policy&nbsp;<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obamas_middle_east_expe.html">advisor</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;Democrat&nbsp;presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">Barack Obama</a>. 
	 
	In January 2008,&nbsp;one U.S. security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that Malley “has <a href="https://www.aufamily.com/forums/topic/45654-i-know-lets-talk-to-them/">expressed</a>&nbsp;sympathy to Hamas and Hezbollah and [has] offered accounts of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that don’t jibe with the facts.” 
	 
	At that time, Malley was the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6218">International Crisis Group</a>&nbsp;(ICG), which&nbsp;has received extensive funding from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181">Open Society Foundations</a>&nbsp;(whose founder, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977">George Soros</a>, has served on both the ICG Board and Executive Committee). Covering events from Iran to Morocco, Malley’s team of analysts focused most heavily on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the political and military developments in Iraq, and Islamist movements across the Middle East. 
	 
	On May 9, 2008, the Barack Obama presidential campaign was forced to&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ug_hIb1Th04C&amp;pg=PA270&amp;lpg=#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">sever</a>&nbsp;its ties with Malley after the latter told the&nbsp;Times&nbsp;of London that he had been in regular contact with the genocidal terrorist group Hamas&nbsp;as part of&nbsp;his work for&nbsp;ICG. 
	 
	On November 5, 2008,&nbsp;Middle East Newsline&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/robert-malley-surfaces-again-mark-hemingway/">reported</a> that Obama had “sent senior foreign-policy advisor Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria over the last few weeks to outline the Democratic candidate’s policy on the Middle East.” The report added that Malley had “relayed a pledge from Obama that the United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo as well as reconcile with Damascus.” “The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests,” said an aide to Malley. 
	 
	At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee&nbsp;hearing in 2010, Malley called for the&nbsp;U.S. “to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MalleyTestimony100304a1.pdf">unveil</a>&nbsp;a set of parameters” that included the creation of a Palestinian state along the “1967 borders,” which would have been a suicidal move for Israel. He also advocated the deployment of third-party armed forces in Judea-Samaria, and the forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes in that region. And he said that Israel should relinquish control of the Golan Heights to Syria, on the premise that Syria was “<a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/11982-obama-quietly-adds-hamas-apologist-robert-malley-to-isis-policy-team">unlikely</a>&nbsp;to sponsor militant groups … [or] destabilize the region … once an agreement has been reached.” 
	 
	After President Obama’s 2012 reelection, he&nbsp;appointed Malley to serve as his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.state.gov/biographies/robert-malley/">Senior Director</a>&nbsp;for the Gulf Region and Syria. Obama pledged, however, that Malley would have no involvement in issues related to Israel and the Palestinians. 
	 
	In February 2014, it was announced that Malley would become the next&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jewishledger.com/2014/02/robert-malley-joins-nsc/">senior director</a>&nbsp;of the National Security Council (NSC), where he would be in charge of managing relations between the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf. In March 2015, Obama appointed Malley to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/caroline-glick/israels-next-22-months/">direct</a>&nbsp;the NSC’s policy in relation to the entire Middle East, including Israel.&nbsp;In November 2015, Malley was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-appoints-new-isis-czar/">named</a>&nbsp;as President Obama’s senior advisor for America’s counter-<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/islamic-state-is-isis-isil/">ISIL</a>&nbsp;campaign in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/10/obamas-new-anti-islamic-state-czar-advocated-funding-hamas-government/">Iraq and Syria</a>. 
	 
	After President Obama left office in 2017,&nbsp;Malley returned to the International Crisis Group, serving as its Vice President for Policy. He subsequently became the organization’s President and CEO, positions he held until January 2021. 
	 
	According to a <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/21/john-kerry-held-backchannel-talks-iran-javad-zarif/">report</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;The Washington Examiner, Malley in July 2019 met secretly with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in an effort to: (a) undermine and sabotage the Trump Administration’s efforts to defuse tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and (b) lay the groundwork for a future relationship between Tehran and a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/democratic-party-dp/">Democratic</a>&nbsp;American President. That Malley-Zarif meeting likely contributed to the failure, two months later, of a Trump attempt&nbsp;to open a back channel of communication with leading Iranian officials during the&nbsp;U.N. General Assembly&nbsp;meeting in New York City. Says the&nbsp;Examiner:


	“The attempt at counter-diplomacy offers a window into the deep relationships Mr.&nbsp;Zarif&nbsp;forged with influential U.S. liberals over the past decade. These relationships blossomed into what high-level national security and intelligence sources say allowed the Iranian regime to bypass Mr. Trump and work directly with Obama administration veterans that Tehran&nbsp;hoped would soon return to power in Washington.”


	In January 2020, Malley&nbsp;<a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/gulf-and-arabian-peninsula/iran/perilous-turning-point-us-iran-confrontation">condemned</a>&nbsp;the Trump Administration’s targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani, who was actively&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/dead-iranian-general-qassem-soleimani-was-planning-more-attacks-on-americans/">planning</a>&nbsp;additional attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East. Malley claimed that the killing of Soleimani made it “more likely” that global tensions would eventually “drag the country into another Middle East war.” He was wrong. 
	 
	In November 2020,&nbsp;Malley&nbsp;<a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/11/obama-admin-officials-criticize-the-killing-of-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/">condemned&nbsp;</a>the Trump Administration’s targeted killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a designated Iranian terrorist and a leading IRGC nuclear scientist, on grounds that his assassination would “make it all the more difficult for [President Trump’s] successor to resume diplomacy with Iran.” 
	 
	Surely the Iranian government today is deliriously happy to be dealing, in its negotiations with the United States, with America’s appeaser extraordinaire, Robert Malley.

Robert Malley: Appeaser Extraordinaire

During his first few days as President,&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;named Robert Malley as his&nbsp;U.S. Special Envoy for Iran. Malley has a long history of antipathy

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	We live in an age of many lies, and David Horowitz’s I Can’t Breathe lays bare what is perhaps the most destructive lie of them all: the claim that America is a congenitally racist nation where, as Vice President Kamala Harris puts it, black people have “never been <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/27/kamala-harris-the-life-of-a-black-person-in-america-has-never-been-treated-as-fully-human/">treated</a> as fully human.” This lie has colossal implications, for it has caused countless millions of African Americans to view themselves as nothing more than pathetic, eternal victims of contemptible white oppressors, while simultaneously causing untold millions of well-meaning, non-racist whites to rebel angrily against being wrongly smeared as bigots. If ever a lie was destined to poison race relations and breed mutual contempt between blacks and whites, it is this one. But now, with a stirring assault of hard facts and blunt candor, I Can’t Breathe pounds and grinds this leftist lie into dust. In the process, the book exposes Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a violent, malevolent movement founded by Marxist revolutionaries whose principal objective is not to promote racial justice, but to foment a race war that will tear our nation apart by any means necessary. 
	 
	<img height="500" width="331" style="width: 267px; height: 402px; float: left;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" src="https://cms.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2021/11/ivb.jpg" alt="" />The book begins its assault by citing, on the very first page, “the disturbing video that recorded the last breaths of George Floyd” in May 2020 and sparked “one of the greatest eruptions of lawlessness and violence in American history.” It points out that not only did BLM activists play leading roles in about 95 percent of the more than 600 violent riots in 200+ cities that broke out shortly Floyd’s death, but that the organization’s foremost leaders steadfastly refused to condemn that violence. This, notes Horowitz, was “in direct contrast to the Civil Rights Movement leaders of the 1960s, who insisted on the principle of non-violence and whose demonstrations were not accompanied by attacks on police or the destruction of local businesses.” 
	 
	I Can’t Breathe makes it clear that although BLM has chosen to break from the non-violent traditions of past civil rights crusaders, it is no mere fringe movement. Rather, it has evolved into a massive social phenomenon whose influence is enabled by mountains of cash donated by tax-exempt foundations, major American corporations, and millionaires and billionaires from all walks of life. 
	 
	Moreover, the book explains, BLM has enjoyed the devoted and unwavering support of the Democratic Party, whose National Committee in 2015 went so far as to pass a resolution formally “affirming” the merits of BLM’s crusade against the supposed epidemic of “extrajudicial killings of unarmed African American[s]” in a nation where blacks are routinely “stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and White Supremacy.” The Democratic Party’s foremost luminaries – the Obamas, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and a multitude of others – have gushed with praise for BLM and its ideals. During the Obama years, for instance, BLM leaders were invited multiple times to the White House, where they often had an audience with the president himself. 
	 
	Throughout 2020, Democrats and leftist media outlets – claiming that 11,000+ “peaceful protests” had been held at more than 2,000 distinct locations across the country – argued that BLM’s public demonstrations were “mostly peaceful” expressions of dissent protected by the First Amendment. But Horowitz points out that their assertion is wholly illegitimate, in light of the fact that even those “peaceful” events: (a) “advanced the same Black Lives Matter indictment of America as a systemically racist society,” and (b) were most often “staged during the daytime and then regularly morphed into riots under cover of night.” In other words, writes the author, it is “difficult to regard the ‘peaceful protests’ as distinct and separate from the violence, rather than as fraternal accessories to it.” 
	 
	As BLM’s toxic message intimidated and devoured one American institution after another throughout 2020, it became clear that Democratic political leaders across the country had neither any intention of standing up in defense of law-enforcement, nor any inclination to reject BLM's “Defund the Police” initiatives which were gaining traction among the left. As a result, police officers quickly concluded that the Democrats who ran their respective cities could not be counted upon to back them up in any meaningful way, and that their own law-enforcement careers, their pensions, and indeed their very lives, could suddenly go up in smoke if ever there came a moment when they might need to use deadly physical force against a black criminal suspect. Thus, the police understandably became <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/01/17/ferguson-effect-real-police-survey-finds/">reluctant</a>&nbsp;to engage criminal suspects except where absolutely necessary. This trend, coupled with the considerable destructive energies of hordes of newly emboldened criminals, led to a sudden upsurge of violence that dwarfed anything ever before seen in American history. The national homicide total rose from 16,669 in 2019, to 21,570 in 2020 – thanks mostly to the climate of violence created by BLM and its ideological allies. 
	 
	Not at all chastened by the fact that its raging rhetoric and violent orientation was directly responsible for America’s national bloodbath of 2020, BLM has been relentless in claiming that the racism of police officers -- and of white America more broadly -- constitute the deadliest threats to black lives in the U.S.&nbsp; Addressing this allegation with unapologetic bluntness, I Can’t Breathe deploys a vast array of facts and statistics which reduce it from a bonfire of wild accusations to a faint, smoldering ember deprived of the intellectual oxygen it needs in order to sustain itself. 
	 
	The book also examines the cases of the most significant and highly publicized “martyrs” mourned and lionized by the BLM movement – i.e., blacks whose deaths resulted, for the most part, from violent interactions with white police officers. When one reads the accounts of their deaths, the pattern that emerges is unmistakable: In case after case, the martyrs were longtime hardened and violent criminals with volcanic tempers who refused to cooperate with police, often fled from police, and sometimes even tried to murder police. Moreover, in many instances the suspects were severely impaired by their recent consumption of large quantities of alcohol or mind-altering drugs. The absurdity of blaming police for being unable to reach harmonious resolutions with such disturbed characters, is self-evident to anyone who reads the damning summaries of these encounters. 
	 
	Notably, I Can’t Breathe does not turn a blind eye to incidents where police officers, under tragic and sometimes chaotic circumstances, have killed black individuals who could not, in any way, be described as out-of-control menaces. Consider, for instance, the 2014 police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black Cleveland youth who was in a public place brandishing a toy gun that was an exact replica of a Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol. Rice was shot by an officer who thought the boy was raising the gun in preparation to shoot at him. While some critics, in hindsight, contend that the shooting of Rice may not have been necessary, the officer who had to make a split-second, life-or-death decision did not have the same benefit of hindsight in that fateful moment. 
	 
	In a similarly tragic situation, a young black man named Philando Castile was shot and killed by a Minnesota policeman who apparently misinterpreted what Castile was intending to do with a handgun in his possession and made a split-second – seemingly panicked -- decision to discharge his weapon. In a nation where 700,000 police officers engage in countless millions of encounters with civilians each year, it is inevitable that some of them will occasionally make mistakes – just as some lawyers and civil rights activists will make mistakes, and just as some longtime felons and their acquaintances will make mistakes. Tragedies happen, sometimes even to people with the best of intentions. But when BLM seizes upon such incidents in order to exploit them as evidence of a white war against black innocents, the organization’s dishonesty and malevolence stand out in bold relief. 
	 
	“If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization,” Horowitz trenchantly observes, “one would reasonably expect its patron figure to be Martin Luther King, and its aspiration to be King’s vision of a race-free America where individuals are judged on their merits and not by their skin color. Instead, the revered figure and inspirational icon for Black Lives Matter activists is a designated terrorist and convicted cop killer: Assata Shakur.” Formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, Shakur is a lifelong Marxist revolutionary who once belonged to the Black Liberation Army, an organization that achieved its fame by robbing banks and murdering cops. Having escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of left-wing terrorists, Shakur has lived for decades as a fugitive in Communist Cuba. Indeed, the late Fidel Castro, the sadistic dictator who protected Shakur in his island nation for many years, is yet another revered icon of the BLM movement. 
	 
	“If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization,” Horowitz writes further, “one might reasonably expect its leaders to condemn or at least distance themselves from well-known race haters like Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. But Black Lives Matter leaders embrace both of those demagogues.” Of course it does. What else would one expect from an organization that proudly endorses the Boycott, Divestment &amp; Sanctions movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative designed to crush the state of Israel economically and politically? 
	 
	And if BLM were indeed a legitimate civil rights organization, surely it would promote the formation of black families – particularly in the present era, where roughly 70% of black babies are born to unmarried mothers in fatherless homes. It is well documented that regardless of race, being raised without a father is the strongest predicter that a child will grow up to experience long-term poverty, psychological and emotional pathologies, and extended prison stays. And yet, in spite of all this, BLM openly disparages “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure,” in favor of alternative arrangements like “collective” communities and “villages.” Why? For no reason other than because Marx and Engels saw the dissolution and abolition of the traditional nuclear family as a natural and desired outgrowth of “the abolition of private property and the introduction of socialism.” This fact alone serves as proof positive that to Black Lives Matter, the overwhelming majority of black lives don’t matter at all. 
	 
	In other words, an entire year of racial strife and social upheaval that resulted in the most dramatic, sudden upsurge in homicides that our country has ever seen, was based entirely on a carefully crafted lie injected purposefully into the American psyche by a pack of destructive Marxist revolutionaries who don’t give a damn about black lives, white lives, or purple lives. By making this very demonstrable reality plain to every reader, I Can’t Breathe makes a major contribution to the vital task of finally, and blessedly, casting that lie into the dustbin of evil, discredited dogmas.

The Racial Hoax That's Killing America

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	We live in an age of many lies, and David Horowitz’s I

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	Bill de Blasio has been the mayor of New York City for nearly eight years. He has a habit of frequently and proudly proclaiming his unwavering commitment to protecting the civil and human rights of New York’s black community. No doubt he is sincere in his belief that he is a white champion for the African American cause. But the unspoken, uncomfortable truth that de Blasio will never acknowledge is that he in fact sees black men and women not as fully developed human beings entirely capable of having agency over their own lives, but rather, as profoundly handicapped beings who are to be forever pitied. He sees them not as dignified adults, but as pathetic, incompetent, childlike victims of a society so cruel, that only the paternalistic helping hand of sanctimonious white leftists like Bill de Blasio can save them. 
	 
	Among the handmaidens of paternalistic, sanctimonious white leftists are black revolutionaries for whom the doctrine of eternal black victimhood is forever the coin of the realm. As such, de Blasio encourages black Americans to hitch their hopes and dreams to the angry rantings of people like <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/al-sharpton">Al Sharpton</a>. In one of his first speeches as mayor-elect, for instance, de Blasio visited Sharpton’s National Action Network and&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/de-blasio-pushes-aggressive-agenda-at-sharpton-meeting/">stated</a>: “Every year Reverend Sharpton is becoming stronger as a leader, is reaching farther as a leader…. And he’ll be the first one up to stand up for justice. I gotta tell you guys, he’s a blessing for all of us.” A few weeks into his first term as mayor, de Blasio <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-METROB-20281">said</a> at the National Action Network’s annual conference in New York: “I just want everyone to know I am proud to stand with Rev. Sharpton. Because to borrow a phrase from our youth, Reverend, ‘you’re the real thing.’” And at Sharpton’s 60th birthday celebration on October 1, 2014, de Blasio <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/cuomo-de-blasio-torn-between-church-dinner-sharptons-birthday/">characterized</a> him as “a blessing for this city,” adding: “The more people criticize him, the more I want to hang out with him.” 
	 
	On none of those occasions did de Blasio make even a passing mention of <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/al-sharpton">Sharpton’s long history as an outspoken racist and Jew-hater</a>. That’s because in de Blasio’s mind, black contempt for whites and Jews is nothing more than karma. 
	 
	At de Blasio’s first swearing-in ceremony as mayor on January 1, 2014,&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/41618/de-blasio-inaguration-featured-prayer-by-pro">prayer</a>&nbsp;was delivered by prison chaplain Askia Muhammad, a former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6600">Nation of Islam</a>&nbsp;member and an avid supporter of none other than <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325">Louis Farrakhan</a>. Farrakhan, you may recall, has distinguished himself by describing Adolf Hitler as “a&nbsp;<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/11/16/twitter-refuses-to-unverify-noted-anti-semite-louis-farrakhan/">very great man</a>,” and has spent many decades denouncing “white devils” and the “<a href="https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/nation-of-islam-farrakhan-in-his-own-words">satanic</a>” Jewish “<a href="https://journaltimes.com/news/national/farrakhan-defends-term-bloodsuckers/article_e7845c45-0a48-58c5-8a77-46adf7e8a0cc.html">bloodsuckers</a>” who practice a “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1874787.stm">gutter religion</a>.” 
	 
	De Blasio was outraged after a Staten Island grand jury decided, in December 2014, not to indict a white New York City&nbsp;police officer whose recent effort to arrest an uncooperative black criminal named Eric Garner had tragically resulted in Garner’s death – largely because of the latter’s pre-existing, underlying medical morbidities. “There are so many families in this city who [wonder] each and every night, is my child safe?” the mayor <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/03/03/de-blasio-defends-training-dante-to-behave-around-cops/">lamented</a> in response to the grand jury’s decision. “And not just from … crime and violence … but are they safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors?” “[O]ur history, sadly, requires us to say that black lives matter,” de Blasio <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/207148-nyc-commissar-bill-de-blasio-blames-centuries-of-racism-for-garner-ruling/">added</a>. “Because as I said the other day, we’re not just dealing with a problem in 2014. We’re not dealing with years of racism leading up to it, or decades of racism. We are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day. That is how profound the crisis is..” 
	 
	In a July 2016&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/bill-de-blasio-chirlane-mccray-black-lives-matter/">interview</a>&nbsp;with CNN, de Blasio praised the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7876">Black Lives Matter</a>&nbsp;movement, saying: “I think that movement, just the very phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ has changed the national discussion … for the better.” On another occasion, he <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/07/de-blasio-defends-black-lives-matter-as-bratton-asks-where-are-the-anti-crime-protests-103688">described</a> Black Lives Matter as a “positive movement” that had “hit the right note” on the subject of racism and police violence in America. In short, the mayor was proud to voice his high esteem for an avowedly Marxist, anti-Semitic, racial supremacist movement whose most revered icon is <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/assata-shakur/">Assata Shakur</a>, a lifelong Marxist revolutionary whose greatest claim to fame was her cold-blooded, execution-style murder of a white state trooper. 
	 
	During a June 30, 2020 appearance on MSNBC’s&nbsp;Morning Joe&nbsp;program, de Blasio proudly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/01/de-blasio-doubles-down-on-threat-to-paint-black-lives-matter-in-front-of-trump-tower-vows-to-use-defunded-police-money-to-pay-for-it/">emphasized</a>&nbsp;the “profound change” that would be taking place in New York – in the form of defunding the city’s police department -- so as to promote the creation of a “safer city in the future.” He also announced that some of the money that was being taken from the NYPD would be used to fund the&nbsp;painting&nbsp;of the words “Black Lives Matter,” in massive yellow letters, onto the pavement of Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. “We’re going to take this moment in history and amplify it by taking the ‘Black Lives Matter’ symbolism and putting it all over this city, including right in front of Trump Tower,” said the mayor. In a photo op, de Blasio himself actually&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events/">helped</a>&nbsp;paint the words on the street, as did his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his beloved ally, Al Sharpton. 
	 
	During a July 9, 2020 interview with CNN,&nbsp;de Blasio&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events/">stated</a>&nbsp;that while all large scheduled events in the city, such as parades and festivals, were being cancelled&nbsp;for the foreseeable future because of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, he would nonetheless permit hundreds and thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through the streets whenever they wished. Why? Because the post-George Floyd era was “a historic moment of change,” the mayor explained. 
	 
	And what was the fruit of Mayor de Blasio’s love affair with Black Lives Matter and its war on the police? For one thing, as the NYPD’s Chief of Department, Terence Monahan,&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/nypd-animosity-towards-police-is-driving-spike-in-shootings/">put it</a> last summer: “The animosity towards police has been absolutely unbelievable.” And because so many cops understood that de Blasio and his administration could not in any way be trusted to support them, more than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers either retired or put in their papers to leave the department in 2020 — a 75 percent increase over the year before. 
	 
	Those factors — anti-police hatred coupled with widespread officer resignations — were, in turn, intimately linked to a spike in <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/are-nypd-officers-rushing-to-retire-amid-citys-anti-cop-climate/">crime rates</a> like the city had not seen in decades. From 2019 to 2020 in NYC, shootings <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/nyc-shootings-and-homicides-soared-in-2020-crime-data-shows/">increased</a> by 97%, murders by 44%, burglaries by 42%, and car thefts by 62%. Moreover, most of the perpetrators of those crimes -- as well as most of the victims -- were black residents of New York. A once-safe and well-ordered city suddenly turned into a war zone where the black lives that supposedly “mattered” so much to Mayor de Blasio were suddenly under continuous, violent assault. 
	 
	All because of a racist mayor who cloaks his exceedingly low regard for black people in the flowery, hollow rhetoric of “racial justice.” If New York were to have elected, as its mayor, a Klansman who openly wished to create an atmosphere that would inevitably lead to a massive increase in black death and suffering across the city, he could not have done any more to achieve such an objective than Mayor Bill de Blasio has done.


	Previous Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a>


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Racist Mayor: Bill de Blasio

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	Shortly after 9 p.m. on the night of May 24, a 17-year-old black youth named Keyshawn Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South Oakley Boulevard when someone in a silver BMW <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/24/22452474/17-year-old-boy-killed-another-wounded-tri-taylor-shooting">opened fire</a> and killed him in a drive-by shooting. 
	 
	The night before that, a 25-year-old African American named Ladell Arnold was riding in a vehicle along West Flournoy Street in Chicago at 7:10 p.m. when he was <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/23/22450698/2-shot-1-fatally-drive-by-homan-square-police">shot</a> and killed by a nearby gunman. 
	 
	The night before that, a 46-year-old black man named Johnnie Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South Michigan Avenue at 7:30 p.m. when some people riding in two passing vehicles shot him <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/22/22449342/3-shot-in-washington-park-crime-gun-violence-homicide">dead</a> while also wounding two others. 
	 
	And at 11:50 p.m. the night before that, a 15-year-old black boy named <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/22/22448663/15-year-old-critically-hurt-lawndale-shooting">Dajon Gater</a> was on the front porch of a West Lexington Street house in Chicago, when two armed males approached and killed him with a gunshot to the head. 
	 
	Like four tiny grains of sand among many thousands in an hourglass, the names of these four dead victims blend imperceptibly into the long list of African Americans whose lives in recent years have been snuffed out by other blacks in the killing field known as Chicago. During the past 12 months alone, more than 820 people have been victims of <a href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/">homicide</a> in The Windy City. And most of them were blacks killed by other blacks.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
	 
	Of course, you’ve never before heard of any of the four individuals cited above – nor will you ever come across their names again – for the simple reason that none of their deaths can be traced to the actions of a white police officer – or to the actions of any white person at all, for that matter. Thus, there will be no Black Lives Matter protest marches held in their honor; no $25,000 celebrity-funded <a href="https://www.thecourierdaily.com/george-floyd-golden-casket-open-closed-paid/20423/">golden caskets</a> eternally encasing their bodies in the grave; and no gaggle of reporters or “civil rights leaders” repeatedly recounting, with pained and pious countenances, the tragic stories of how these four individuals died, far too young, in America’s third largest city. No, the only words publicly memorializing these four people will be the names etched silently on their tombstones. 
	 
	The chief political executive of the hell hole called Chicago is Lori Lightfoot, the latest in an unbroken, 90-year line of exclusively Democrat mayors extending all the way back to 1931. Under Lightfoot’s stewardship, homicides in Chicago increased by an astonishing 40 percent from 2019 to 2020 – a pattern that was seen in a host of Democrat-run cities after George Floyd’s death a year ago. And Chicago’s stratospheric homicide rate has <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html">continued</a> well into 2021. 
	 
	In light of the fact that violent death has become a way of life in Lightfoot’s Chicago, it was nothing short of remarkable to hear her recently <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor/status/1395019807846649861" target="_blank">announce</a> that “on the <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-chicago-journalists/2021/05/19/id/1022000/">occasion</a> of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city,” she would be “prioritizing media requests from POC reporters,” an acronym meaning “people of color” -- rather than prioritizing the urgent need to get the city’s murder rate under control. Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/1394766979450425360" target="_blank">confirmed</a>&nbsp;that according to the mayor’s spokeswoman, “Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews only to Black or Brown journalists.” 
	 
	Lightfoot was more than eager to defend her clearly articulated intent to separate reporters into two separate classes, the preferred (nonwhite) and the non-preferred (white). Like the Black Lives Matter racists who felt wholly justified in terrorizing hundreds of American cities and towns last year, Lightfoot is more than proud to display her own particular brand of racism like a badge of honor. In a two-page <a href="https://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1395030890888187906/photo/1">letter</a> to the media, she wrote that her decision to deny interview requests from white reporters was based on her commitment to “fight for diversity and inclusion,” “break up the status quo” that has been “failing so many,” and pay homage to the “historic reckoning” by which the nation has recently been forced to confront its own “systemic racism” and its “deep-seated legacies around institutionalized racism.” Lamenting “the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets,” Lightfoot <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-chicago-journalists/2021/05/19/id/1022000/">wrote</a>: “It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI [Asian American / Pacific Islander] or Native American.” 
	 
	“At the two-year anniversary of my inauguration,” Lightfoot <a href="https://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1395030890888187906/photo/2">told</a> the press, “I am issuing a challenge to you. Hire reporters of color – especially women of color – to cover Chicago politics, and City Hall in particular. If you have only a white reporter covering City Hall, make sure there’s a person of color working with them as well.” In short, Mayor Lightfoot feels justified in dictating to private media companies exactly how they should allocate their limited financial resources, and whom they should hire to do which jobs. As is invariably the case with self-identified leftwing warriors for “racial justice,” the spirit of totalitarianism burns bright and hot in the heart of Lori Lightfoot. 
	 
	Nor is racial obsession anything new for Mayor Lightfoot. She’s very comfortable with it. Indeed, just three months ago Lightfoot proudly <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/02/chicago-prepares-tear-down-jewish-washington-daniel-greenfield/">announced</a> that “a racial <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/17/41-problematic-monuments-flagged-city-commission-identified?fbclid=IwAR2adMUWbAPcEDe_2i5CaET0rXI_mfoUAv3itD3OfNrMd7qGQCq4S-F9tbM">healing</a> and historical reckoning” initiative known as the&nbsp; Chicago Monuments Project, which the city had launched six months earlier to confront the “hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,” had determined that no fewer than 41 separate statues and monuments situated in various locations across the city could be subject to removal from the public square because they: (a) “promot[e] narratives of white supremacy”; (b) “memorializ[e] individuals with connections to racist acts, slavery and genocide”; (c) presen[t] selective, over-simplified, one-sided views of history”; and (d) do “not sufficiently include[e] other stories, in particular those of women, people of color and themes of labor, migration and community building.” The purportedly offensive statues and monuments include those erected in honor of such notables as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, William McKinley, Leif Ericson, the French missionary Jacques Marquette, and the cartographer Louis Jolliet. 
	 
	“This project is a powerful opportunity for us to come together as a city to assess the many monuments and memorials across our neighborhoods and communities—to face our history and what and how we memorialize that history,” Lightfoot <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/17/41-problematic-monuments-flagged-city-commission-identified?fbclid=IwAR2adMUWbAPcEDe_2i5CaET0rXI_mfoUAv3itD3OfNrMd7qGQCq4S-F9tbM">said</a>. This was particularly important, the mayor emphasized, in light of “the past year and in particular the past summer that made clear [that America’s racist] history isn’t past.” 
	 
	The standards by which Mayor Lightfoot is prepared to pass judgment on the alleged moral deficiencies of historical giants and national heroes, stand in stark contrast to the standards by which she judges modern-day leftists. 
	 
	Consider, for instance, how Lightfoot, in the early days of her mayoralty two years ago, gleefully <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-abortion-law-bill-in-restrictions/5318499/">celebrated</a> the <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2019/june/StatementRHALaw.html">passage</a> of Illinois’ so-called Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed the state's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act; removed restrictions on late-term abortions and on the imposition of criminal penalties against physicians who perform them; and expanded insurance coverage for abortion procedures. When the RHA initially cleared the state's Human Services Committee and was sent to the full Illinois House for consideration, Lightfoot issued a statement saying, “I applaud the legislators who voted yes tonight on the passage of the Reproductive Health Act…. The time is now to ensure that we preserve access to safe, legal abortion in our state. We won't go backwards.” When the bill was subsequently signed into law by the governor a few weeks later, Lightfoot said: “Today, the state of Illinois sent a clear message that we will protect the fundamental right of residents and expand access to reproductive health care.” 
	 
	So, Lori Lightfoot’s standard is abundantly clear. Statues honoring white people who made enormous contributions to America and to Western civilization -- but who may have been insufficiently militant, by Lightfoot’s reckoning, in fighting to eradicate slavery -- should be banned from the public square as punishment for the shortcomings of those individuals. But modern-day leftwing zealots who stand in favor of legalizing the killing of fully formed human beings in the womb – in the noble name of “reproductive rights,” of course – are to be hailed and celebrated as champions of liberty. 
	 
	Subsequent Parts of Series: 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Lori Lightfoot

Editor's note: This is the first in a series Frontpage is running on Racist Mayors. See subsequent parts below this article. 


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Last Friday, a 25-year-old Nation of Islam supporter named <a href="https://heavy.com/news/noah-green/">Noah Green</a> rammed his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, killing police officer William Evans and injuring another officer in the process, before Green himself was shot and killed by a cop at the scene. In stark contrast to the countless lamentations – by media outlets and elected Democrats – that the people who stormed the Capitol building on January 6 were an undifferentiated pack of “racists” and “white supremacists,” Democrats and their leftwing allies have been remarkably uninterested in the element of race vis-à-vis Mr. Green and the white policeman he killed on Friday. Senator Chuck Schumer, for one, soberly claimed, without reference to race, to be “<a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-statement-on-the-death-of-us-capitol-police-officer-william-f-evans">heartbroken</a> for the family and loved ones” of the fallen officer. President Biden offered his “heartfelt <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/capitol-attack.html">condolences</a>” to Evans’ family. And Nancy Pelosi called Evans “a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/capitol-security-threat-04-02-21/index.html">martyr</a> for our democracy” -- a far cry from her July 2020 statement comparing federal anti-riot police in Portland to Nazi “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pelosi-says-she-didnt-call-federal-police-storm-troopers-calling-barr-a-blob">storm troopers</a>.” 
	 
	Why the sudden, uncharacteristic reluctance to jump to stupid, uninformed conclusions about the motivations of a criminal perpetrator?The colossal hypocrites who run social media platforms have been similarly averse to wading into racial waters in their dealings with Noah Green. Consider Facebook, whose militant censors and “fact-checkers” have been so keenly on the lookout for <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/calls-to-censor-blacklist-republicans-conservatives-trump-supporters">messages</a> conveying even the barest 
	 
	<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2020/07/26/facebook-continues-missteps-on-hate-speech-and-misinformation/?sh=4bc0efdb414f">trace</a> of support for “hate,” “misinformation,” or “conspiracy theories” promulgated by white conservatives. For some mysterious reason, those same censors were apparently asleep-at-the-wheel when Mr. Green, as recently as March 17, used his Facebook page to express his deep <a href="https://heavy.com/news/noah-green/">admiration</a> for former Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Neither did the censors object when Green again used Facebook on March 21 to describe Louis Farrakhan, who has been the Nation of Islam’s principal leader for more than 40 years, as “the man who can carry us through the dark hour.” Nor did the censors balk when Green recently stated on Facebook that “my faith is centered on the belief of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Jesus, the Messiah, the final divine reminder in our midst.” 
	 
	The Facebook censors’ disinterest in Noah Green’s love letters to Muhammad and Farrakhan is quite remarkable, when one considers the type of rhetoric those men have been responsible for. Muhammad, for instance, once published a book claiming that the white race had originally come&nbsp;into existence through the efforts of&nbsp;a renegade scientist who&nbsp;grafted white people from a “brown germ” sometime around 4000 BC. The&nbsp;result of this ill-advised experiment, said Muhammad, was the birth of a&nbsp;morally tainted strain of humanity — “white devils” who&nbsp;would go on to devastate the world and oppress all other human beings, and whom God would someday destroy in a liberating Armageddon. This creation story was parlayed into the notion of&nbsp;“Black Supremacy” over an “evil and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=401021847162986&amp;story_fbid=696441684287666">murderous</a> 
	 
	race” of white “<a href="https://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Columns_4/The_Honorable_Elijah_Muhammad_on_The_Ultimate_Aim__548.shtml">arch-deceivers</a>” who should be barred from living alongside blacks. “It is far more important to teach <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mdtMpTzYZP4C&amp;pg=PA204&amp;lpg=#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">separation</a> of the blacks and whites in America, than prayer,” said Muhammad. 
	 
	Hate? Misinformation? Conspiracy theory? Facebook never accused Mr. Green of promoting such things when he was singing the praises of Elijah Muhammad. Indeed, Green’s Facebook account was never once suspended until <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/02/facebook-admits-to-pulling-capitol-suspect-noah-greens-accounts/">after</a> he had killed Officer Evans and was dead himself. So, the lesson is clear: Facebook deems it perfectly acceptable to exercise one’s right to free speech by expressing reverence for a man who spent a lifetime demonizing an entire race of people as subhuman, satanic scum. But don’t you dare use your Facebook page to cite any sources that call into question the results of a presidential election that was rife with all manner of procedural irregularities. That would be beyond the pale, you see, and Facebook will dutifully <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-says-it-is-removing-all-content-mentioning-stop-the-steal-11610401305">remove</a> any post in which you insubordinately mention “stop the steal” or similar themes. 
	 
	And then there’s the other hero whom Noah Green glorified on Facebook, Louis Farrakhan, who <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/farrakhan-lying-murderous-zionist-jews-behind-911/">told</a> worshipers at a Chicago mosque in 2015: “It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. We know that … Israelis had full knowledge of the attacks.” “We’re dealing with thieves, and liars, and murderers,” added Farrakhan, explaining that Jews were secretly aware that powerful bombs had been placed inside the World Trade Center buildings in order to enable the WTC’s Jewish developer, Larry Silverstein, to collect billions of dollars in insurance payouts. 
	 
	Also not that long ago, Farrakhan delivered a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/04/farrakhan-we-must-rise-up-and-kill-those-who-kill-us-stalk-them-and-kill-them/">sermon</a>&nbsp;in Miami where he called, in essence, for black people to murder their white oppressors: “I’m looking for 10,000&nbsp;… fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under [the] tyranny” of “white folks” who collectively amount to “a 400-year-old enemy.” “[I]f the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs,” he said, “then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!” 
	 
	Hate? Misinformation? Conspiracy theory? Fomenting violence? What happened, Facebook censors and “fact-checkers”? Cat got your tongues? 
	 
	Is it possible that Noah Green’s homicidal actions of April 2 were motivated by the demented doctrines of the Nation of Islam and the men who have been its foremost leaders during the past half-century? It’s a question well worth exploring. But Facebook doesn’t care about the answer. Neither do the Democrats. When the killer is black and the victim is white, every leftist is suddenly, miraculously transformed from a race-obsessed grievance monger, into a colorblind champion of free speech and free thought.


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Who Cares if a Nation of Islam Racist Killed a White Cop?

Last Friday, a 25-year-old Nation of Islam supporter named Noah Green rammed his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol, killing police officer William

These are exciting times for Black Lives Matter (BLM) and its comrades. First, they spent most of 2020 raking in countless millions of dollars in donations as compensation for turning dozens of American cities into war zones—an activity they describe as “racial justice” activism. Next, they helped get two their two most influential supporters on Earth, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, installed in the White House. And now, they have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/us/black-lives-matter-movement-nobel-peace-prize-trnd/index.html">nominated</a> for a Nobel Peace Prize. 
	 
	The nomination was put forth by the Norwegian parliamentarian Petter Eide, who lauds BLM for its noble “struggle against racism and racially motivated violence.” In light of the fact that Mr. Eide has represented the Socialist Left party in Parliament since 2017, it is no surprise that he should be impressed by the agendas and tactics of BLM, an organization founded by three self-identified “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1noLh25FbKI">trained Marxist</a>” revolutionaries: <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2671">Patrisse Cullors</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2670">Alicia Garza</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2672">Opal Tometi</a>. Under their leadership, BLM has perfected the longtime Marxist strategy of portraying the U.S. as a racist cesspool in desperate need of fundamental transformation. Presumably Mr. Eide believes that such a message, if repeated with sufficient frequency and passion, will promote “peace.” 
	 
	Perhaps he also believes that yet another Marxist ideal advocated by BLM—the dissolution of “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure”—will likewise further the cause of “peace.” 
	 
	While conceding that “people message me to say that BLM is a violent organization,” Mr. Eide dutifully explains that “if some elements of the movement may have been violent, that is not a reason to blame the whole movement.”


	Thus, it apparently meant nothing when, in June 2020, BLM’s New York chairman, Hawk Newsome, exhorted African Americans to arm themselves and candidly declared that “we <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384065/Black-Lives-Matter-leader-declares-war-police.html">pattern</a>&nbsp;ourselves after the Black Panthers”—a Marxist-Leninist gang that in the 1960s and '70s waged armed warfare against the police and engaged in all manner of criminality: drug dealing, pimping, rape, extortion, assault, arson and murder. Commending the BLM rioters who were tearing apart city after city, Newsome explained: “People want to destroy because they’re angry and they’re frustrated. They want to go out and grab all those things that America told them that they should have, but they couldn’t have.” “If this country doesn’t give us what we want,” he said later in June, “then we will burn down this system and replace it.” 
	 
	One can almost picture Mr. Newsome, in BLM's name, tearfully clutching that Nobel Peace Prize to his breast. 
	 
	By the end of June 2020, at least 14,000 protesters and rioters in 49 separate U.S. cities had been <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-28/antifa-boogaloo-extremists-at-us-floyd-protests/12388260">arrested</a> at BLM uprisings during the five weeks since George Floyd's death. As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html">many</a> as 26&nbsp;million people had already participated in BLM demonstrations from coast to coast, prompting&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;to run a headline that read: “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.” Moreover, the 2020 riots were projected to become—in terms of losses due to theft, fire, vandalism, and other forms of destruction—the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/george-floyd-protests-expensive-civil-disturbance-us-history">costliest</a>&nbsp;sustained acts of civil disorder in American history. On top of this, approximately 25 people were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled">killed</a> amid the 2020 mayhem. 
	 
	All that violence, coupled with the fecklessness of Democrat political leaders who refused to condemn BLM and its activities and rhetoric, had consequences that were beyond horrific. As it became increasingly clear that Democrats across the country had no intention of standing up in defense of the police, and no intention of rejecting BLM's “defund the police” initiative which was gaining traction among the left, law-enforcement officers nationwide understood that they were on their own; that their careers, their pensions, indeed their very lives, could suddenly go up in smoke if they were to find themselves in a situation where they needed to use deadly physical force against a black criminal suspect. Thus the police <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/blms-violence-death-americas-cities-john-perazzo/">became</a> increasingly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/01/17/ferguson-effect-real-police-survey-finds/">reluctant</a>&nbsp;to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary. This, in conjunction with the ever-growing rage, self-righteousness, and sense of invincibility among violent criminals, resulted in a massive increase in homicides throughout urban America. 
	 
	Chicago was hit particularly hard. “We’ve never seen anything like it at all,”&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago-deadliest-day-violence-murder-history-police-crime">said</a>&nbsp;Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.” 
	 
	New York City was likewise turned into a cauldron of violence by BLM hatred. June 2020, the month immediately following the month in which George Floyd had died, became New York’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/shootings-soar-205-percent-after-nypd-disbands-anti-crime-unit/?utm_campaign=applenews&amp;utm_medium=inline&amp;utm_source=applenews">bloodiest</a> month since 1996. 
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	Nationwide, homicide rates jumped by an astonishing <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/01/americas-murder-rate-increase-in-2020-has-no-modern-precedent/">30 percent</a> from 2019 to 2020, a statistically unprecedented occurrence. New Orleans-based crime analyst Jeff Asher called the trend “a <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2020/1214/2020-s-murder-increase-is-unprecedented.-But-is-it-a-blip">symptom</a> of this concept of police legitimacy, where police pull back because people are upset and questioning their legitimacy.” 
	 
	In an important September 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">report</a>, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit organization that tracks conflict in every part of the world, identified 1,143 post-George Floyd protests that had featured physical violence of some sort, such as looting, armed attacks, arson, rock-throwing, clashes with police, the use of pepper spray, etc. Of these violent incidents, 84 percent involved BLM. 
	 
	Of the aforementioned 1,143 incidents, 582 were coded as full-blown riots whose leaders and participants could be definitively identified. Fully 95 percent of the 582 riots involved BLM. One of them occurred during the Jewish festival of Shavuot on May 30, 2020, when BLM members carried out a <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/26/the-silent-american-jews/">pogrom</a>&nbsp;in Fairfax, a Los Angeles community largely populated by Orthodox Jews. On that day, the BLMers not only vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools, but also looted most of the Jewish businesses along Fairfax Avenue. Moreover, they <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/columns/daniel-greenfield/the-la-black-lives-matter-rally-that-became-a-pogrom/2020/06/22/">chanted</a> “Fuck the police and kill the Jews.” 
	 
	None of these facts, of course, mean much to Petter Eide and other defenders of Black Lives Matter, who take pains to remind us that BLM events are “mostly peaceful.” That's quite a trick: a “mostly peaceful” movement that just happens to have been responsible for more property destruction during 2020 than any other uprisings in American history -- to say nothing of the untold thousands of deaths and injuries that occurred, in large part, as a result of BLM’s war on the police. 
	 
	But to truly put Black Lives Matter's devotion to “peace” in its proper perspective, we must remember that at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNayoOysBLY">all BLM events</a>, the participants take time to formally <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/23/blacklivesmatter-pays-homage-to-marxist-cop-killer-at-every-event-it-holds/">invoke</a>&nbsp;the words of the organization's acknowledged heroine, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/assata-shakur/">Assata Shakur</a>. They are words that Shakur once&nbsp;wrote in a letter titled “<a href="http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/tmp.html">To My People</a>”: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.&nbsp;We must love each other and support each other.&nbsp;We have nothing to lose but our chains.” (Shakur drew the fourth sentence from the Communist Manifesto of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2676">Karl Marx</a>&nbsp;and Friedrich Engels.)&nbsp; 
	 
	Shakur is a lifelong, committed Marxist revolutionary, a former&nbsp;<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7375">Black Panther</a>, a convicted cop-killer, and a onetime member of a Panther offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), an organization that was tied to the murders of more than ten police officers between 1970-73. As Jordan Schachtel <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/who-is-the-cop-killer-woman-trump-just-called-on-cuba-to-extradite">writes</a> in&nbsp;Conservative Review, Shakur “was the leader of a notorious New York City BLA cell that hunted down police officers for brutal assassinations.” Former Assistant FBI Director John Miller describes Shakur as having been “the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/13/the-castro-coddled-cop-killer/">soul</a>&nbsp;of the Black Liberation Army.” 
	 
	Shakur's greatest fame came as a result of what she did at approximately 12:45 a.m.&nbsp;on May 2, 1973. That morning, she shot New Jersey state trooper <a href="https://www.njsp.org/memoriam/1970s/foerster.shtml">Werner Foerster</a> twice before her gun jammed. With Foerster on the ground, wounded and helpless, Shakur grabbed the trooper’s own firearm and blasted two fatal shots into his head, execution-style. The 34-year-old Foerster was survived by a wife and a three-year-old son. Shakur, for her part, escaped from prison in 1979 and has lived the past 42 years as a fugitive in Communist Cuba, under the continuous protection of Fidel and Raul Castro. And today, she – and she alone – is the person whom Black Lives Matter reveres above anyone else in this big, wide world. Assata Shakur is the soul of BLM, just as she was the soul of the BLA. 
	 
	And so, with that in mind, let us congratulate Black Lives Matter and its acolytes for their Nobel Peace Prize nomination. If they end up winning the award, their achievements can be forever recalled in the same breath as those of 1994 Nobel Laureate Yasser Arafat, the prolific Jew-killer who likewise devoted his life to fomenting hatred, chaos, and suffering on a massive scale—all in the good name of “peace,” of course.

BLM's Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

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Black Lives Matter: Marxist Hate Dressed Up As Racial Justice

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Something monumentally significant happened at a Black Lives Matter conference in Cleveland on July 24, 2015 – almost exactly five years ago. Beginning at 2:30 that afternoon, BLM presented a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/31/black-lives-matter-conference-teaches-alinsky-tactics/">workshop</a> for aspiring and seasoned radical agitators alike, titled There’s A Method To The Movement: Examining Community Organizing Methods and Methodologies.&nbsp;Those in attendance were instructed, that day, in the tactics and philosophy of the late <a href="https://api.discoverthenetworks.org/individual/saul-alinsky/">Saul Alinsky</a>.&nbsp;Known as the godfather of “community organizing” – a term that serves as a euphemism for fomenting public discontent and violence – Alinsky was a communist <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow%20traveler">fellow traveler</a> who laid out a set of basic strategies designed to help leftist radicals destroy their enemies and transform society into a socialist paradise. 
	 
	If such radicals were to be successful in remaking society, said Alinsky, they “must first rub raw the resentments of the people”[1] by identifying a particular “personification” of evil and “publicly attack[ing]” it as a “dangerous enemy” of all that is decent.[2] The chief “personification” in BLM’s cross hairs today, of course, is the white police officer. 
	 
	“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” Alinsky taught,[3]&nbsp;asserting that the primary task of radicals is to cultivate, in people’s hearts, a visceral revulsion to the mere sight of the target’s face. “The organizer who forgets the significance of personal identification,” said Alinsky, “will attempt to answer all objections on the basis of logic and merit. With few exceptions this is a futile procedure.”[4]&nbsp; 
	 
	That is why BLM and its apologists invariably avoid addressing even the most glaring errors in the anti-police, anti-white narratives they seek to advance, and why they turn a deaf ear to anyone who tries to engage them with logic, reason, or empirical data. Indeed, when confronted with incontrovertible <a href="https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/exposing-lies-black-lives-matter-john-perazzo">statistical evidence</a> proving, beyond any doubt, that their assertions about police racism are nothing more than a pack of monstrous lies, BLMers invariably respond with the intellectual equivalent of a collective belch. 
	 
	Alinsky taught that in order to cast themselves as noble defenders of high moral principles, radical activists should take pains to react dramatically – with greatly exaggerated displays of “shock, horror, and moral outrage” – whenever their targeted enemy erred, or could be depicted as having erred, in any way at all.[5]&nbsp; Thus, even though American police officers annually have some <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883">375 million</a> civilian contacts in which they act entirely within the bounds of legality and ethics, BLM chooses to magnify – with choreographed indignation – the significance of a tiny handful of questionable cases, and to characterize them as emblems of supposedly widespread police misconduct. 
	 
	Alinsky advised radical activists to avoid the temptation to concede that their opponents are not “100 percent devil,” or that they may possess certain admirable qualities. Such concessions, he said, would “dilut[e] the impact of the attack” and thus amount to “political idiocy.”[6] That's why we never hear BLM praising the police for anything, ever. Instead, it is 100% attack, 100% of the time, against a 100% devil. 
	 
	Given that the enemy is to be portrayed as the very personification of evil – against whom any and all tactics are fair game – Alinsky taught that an effective radical activist should never give the appearance of being satisfied with any compromise proposed by the opposition. After all, any bargain with the “devil” is, by definition, morally tainted. The ultimate goal, said Alinsky, is not to arrive at peaceful coexistence, but rather, to completely “crush the opposition” by remaining vigilantly “dedicated to eternal war.”[7] “A war is not an intellectual debate,” Alinsky elaborated, “and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.… When you have war, it means that neither side can agree on anything…. [T]here can be no compromise. It is life or death.”[8] 
	 
	Alinsky advised the radical activist to be ever on guard against the possibility that the enemy might someday propose “a constructive alternative” aimed at resolving some particular conflict. “You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand,”[9]&nbsp;said Alinsky, for such a turn of events would have the effect of diffusing the righteous indignation of the radical, whose very identity is inextricably woven into the “struggle” for long-denied justice. If the perceived oppressor extends a hand of friendship in an effort to end the conflict, the crusade of the radical is jeopardized. This cannot be permitted, because “eternal war,” by definition, must never end. 
	 
	Alinsky also exhorted radical activists to be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably willing – for the sake of their crusade – to plunge society at large into chaos and anarchy. They must be prepared, Alinsky explained, to “go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion.”[10] 
	 
	One way in which radicals and their disciples could broadcast their preparedness for this possibility, Alinsky taught, was by staging loud, angry, massive demonstrations denouncing their political adversaries. Such&nbsp;events – like the BLM protests and riots of recent weeks – can give onlookers the impression that a mass movement is shifting into an even higher gear. A “mass impression,” said Alinsky, can be lasting and intimidating: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”[11]&nbsp; “The threat,” he added, “is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”[12]&nbsp;Putting it yet another way, Alinsky advised: “Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.”[13] 
	 
	“Confusion, fear, and retreat.” That is exactly what we have witnessed recently in city after city where political leaders have made concessions to BLM, introduced legislative initiatives demanded by BLM, and lauded BLM as a movement dedicated to “social justice.” Corporations from coast to coast have likewise turned appeasement and racial virtue-signaling into high art forms. 
	 
	<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/patrisse-cullors/">Patrisse Cullors</a> spoke the truth when she famously <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/news/blm-founder-soros-expert/">described</a> herself and her fellow BLM co-founder, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/alicia-garza/">Alicia Garza</a>, as “trained Marxists” who are “super versed on ideological theories.” Cullors also <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/24/black-lives-matter-founder-mentored-by-ex-domestic-terrorist-who-worked-with-bill-ayers/">revealed</a>&nbsp;that for more than a decade she was a protégé of Eric Mann, a communist revolutionary and domestic terrorist from the 1960s and ’70s. 
	 
	And quite obviously, BLM's intellectual debt to Saul Alinsky is every bit as significant. Alinsky's call for relentless, uncompromising “perpetual war” – geared toward the destruction of America and the creation of a Marxist utopia – is the spirit that beats in the very heart of the BLM movement.


	NOTES: 
	[1]&nbsp;Saul Alinsky,&nbsp;Rules for Radicals, p.100.


	[2]&nbsp;Ibid., p. 133.


	[3]&nbsp;Ibid., pp. 130-131.


	[4]&nbsp;Saul Alinsky,&nbsp;Reveille for Radicals, p. 125. 
	[5]&nbsp;Saul Alinsky,&nbsp;Rules for Radicals, p. 130.


	[6]&nbsp;Ibid., p. 134.


	[7]&nbsp;Ibid., p. 29.


	[8]&nbsp;Ibid., p. 34.


	[9]&nbsp;Ibid., p. 24.


	[10]&nbsp;Saul Alinsky,&nbsp;Reveille for Radicals, p. 150.


	[11]&nbsp;Ibid., pp. 133-134.


	[12]&nbsp;Saul Alinsky,&nbsp;Rules for Radicals, p. 130.


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Why BLM Yawns at Police-Shooting Statistics

Something monumentally significant happened at a Black Lives Matter conference in Cleveland on July 24, 2015 – almost exactly five years ago. Beginning at 2:30

The police-hating rhetoric of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm/">the openly and proudly Marxist "Black Lives Matter"</a>&nbsp;(BLM) movement is doing exactly what it did five years ago – creating a massive increase in violent crime and homicide throughout urban America. You may recall that back in 2015-16, BLM's anti-police protests and riots – particularly in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri – intimidated officers nationwide into becoming much less proactive in dealing with criminal suspects. A Pew Research Center&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/01/17/ferguson-effect-real-police-survey-finds/">report</a>&nbsp;titled “Behind the Badge” – which tabulated the results of a questionnaire that was sent to thousands of officers – confirmed that 85 to 95 percent of law-enforcement officers in large police departments became highly reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary. 
	 
	The consequences of the new timidity of law-enforcement were monumental: 
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		In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/21/more-on-the-ferguson-effect-and-responses-to-critics/">2015</a>, America’s 56 largest cities&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/the-ferguson-effect-is-fueling-a-growing-crime-wave/">experienced</a>&nbsp;a 17% rise in homicides.</li>
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		<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/20/the-ferguson-effect/">Twelve</a>&nbsp;cities with large black populations saw their murder totals&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/14/we-have-a-problem-homicides-are-up-again-this-year-in-more-than-two-dozen-major-u-s-cities/">spike</a>&nbsp;even more dramatically – e.g., by 54% in D.C., 60% in Newark, 72% in Milwaukee, 83% in Nashville, and 90% in Cleveland.</li>
	<li>
		Robberies <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235216300010">surged</a>&nbsp;in America's 81 largest cities during the 12 months that followed the shooting of Michael Brown.</li>
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		During the first quarter of 2016, homicides in America's 63 largest cities increased by 9%, while nonfatal shootings were up 21%. 
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	And today, as a result of the anti-police riots and denunciations that have swept the country since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis – eruptions led in large measure by the Marxists and anarchists of BLM – we are already seeing the same trends all over again.


	 
	Consider, for instance, the case of Chicago: 
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		On Sunday, May 31, eighteen <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/chicago-sees-18-homicides-deadliest-day-60-years/story?id=71150234">homicides</a> were committed in Chicago, breaking the city's previous one-day record of thirteen, set 29 years ago. In fact, over the course of that same weekend as a whole, Chicago police responded to at least 73 incidents in which 92 people were shot, including 27 who died as a result. “We’ve never seen anything like it at all,” <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago-deadliest-day-violence-murder-history-police-crime">said</a> Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”</li>
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		From Friday evening through Saturday afternoon, <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-gun-violence-at-least-19-people-hurt-in-weekend-shootings/2285585/">June 5-6</a>, at least 23 people were wounded in various shootings across Chicago.</li>
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		During the weekend of June 12-14, no fewer than 34 Chicagoans were <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-weekend-shootings-1-dead-at-least-28-wounded-in-gun-violence/2289615/">wounded</a> in shootings citywide.</li>
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		During Father's Day weekend, June 19-21, Chicago saw more than 100 people <a href="https://time.com/5857130/fathers-day-weekend-shootings-chicago/">shot</a> in an astonishing wave of gunfire, 14 of them fatally.</li>
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		During the last weekend of June, 63 people were <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-weekend-violence-gun-ride-share-driver-shot/6280115/">shot</a> in Chicago, 16 of them fatally.</li>
</ul>


	 
	New York City has likewise been turned into a leftist hell hole by BLM hatred: 
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	<li>
		In a 28-day period from mid-May through mid-June, the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/new-york-city-crime/index.html">incidence</a> of murder, burglary and grand larceny auto crimes in New York spiked dramatically when compared to the same period last year. Particularly alarming was the homicide count – 38 murders in 28 days – a total twice as high as the corresponding figure from 2019.</li>
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		From June 16-22, the number of <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/weekly-nyc-shootings-soar-358-over-last-year-data-shows/2478075/">shootings</a> in New York City increased by some 358 percent compared with the same time frame in 2019 – from 12 shootings last year, to 55 this year. In those 55 most recent shooting incidents, a total of 74 people were wounded.</li>
	<li>
		From June 19-27, more than 110 people in New York City were wounded or killed in 83 separate <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/29/over-110-shot-in-9-days-in-mayor-de-blasios-new-york-city/">shootings</a>.</li>
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		In a 12-hour <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/11-people-shot-across-nyc-in-less-than-12-hours/">period</a> during the weekend of June 27-28, eleven people were shot and wounded citywide. This spree of gunfire brought the number of shootings over the most recent seven-day period in New York to 59 – a figure that dwarfed the 26 shootings which had occurred during the same time frame in 2019. 
		&nbsp;</li>
</ul>


	The NYPD's Chief of Department, Terence Monahan, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/nypd-animosity-towards-police-is-driving-spike-in-shootings/">blames</a> these horrific trends largely on the fact that “the animosity towards police has been absolutely unbelievable.” “The violence, the shootings are up,” he says. “We haven’t seen this many [during a comparable time period] since 1996.” 
	 
	The animosity cited by Monahan was on full display in the wee morning hours this past Sunday, when a mob of young people spent several <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/angry-mob-hurls-bottles-at-nypd-cruisers-during-standoff-in-harlem/">hours</a> hurling bottles and epithets at NYPD officers who tried to break up their massive street party following reports of gunfire at the gathering. The attendees defiantly and repeatedly demanded that the officers “Get the f–k out of here!” Others taunted the cops by launching aerial fireworks from atop a van, and by dancing lewdly in front of an NYPD vehicle. In a subsequent interview with reporters, one young black man summed up his attitude toward the police thusly: “The black people wanted the cops to know that this is our neighborhood and you’re not going to intimidate us.” Meanwhile, a dispirited police officer described the situation as “complete lawlessness.” 
	 
	And because the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has been highly sympathetic to the protesters and rioters – as evidenced by the enactment of a $1 billion cut to the NYPD budget – New York City officers have decided that it's time to get out while they can. During the 30-day period from May 25 through June 24, no fewer than 272 uniformed cops announced that they were <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/272-nypd-cops-file-for-retirement-since-floyd-protests/">retiring</a> – a 49 percent increase over the 183 officers who filed for retirement during the same period last year. 
	 
	The atmosphere in <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-cities-increase-violent-crime-police-group/story?id=71411919">Milwaukee</a>, nearly 900 miles west of New York, has grown equally grim. According to Milwaukee Inspector Leslie Thiele: “Our homicides are way up. We haven't seen these numbers since 1991. We have 86 homicides this year, compared to 37 to this point last year – so we have a 132% increase. Thiele's fellow Milwaukee Inspector Terrence Gordon <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-cities-increase-violent-crime-police-group/story?id=71411919">says</a>: “Morale [among police] is terrible. But people don't have low morale because of something the chief did, it's because they're afraid that nobody in this community is going to stand up for them. In 25 years, I've never seen it like this. I never thought that I'd see the day where a Milwaukee police officer would withdraw from the community they swore to serve. But I can see it beginning to happen right now, and it's just terrible, because on the other side of all these crimes are victims.”


	 
	The hearts of police officers have likewise been torn asunder in Washington, D.C., as evidenced by the fact that in a recent press release, the city's Metropolitan Police Union <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-cities-increase-violent-crime-police-group/story?id=71411919">said</a> that 71% of the members it surveyed are considering leaving the department. Of those, nearly 40% are planning to leave law enforcement entirely. 
	 
	In St. Louis during the weekend of June 6-7, no fewer than 21 people were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/09/21-shot-six-fatally-over-weekend-in-democrat-controlled-st-louis/">shot</a>, 6 of them fatally. During the first week of June, homicides in&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501945-los-angeles-police-report-spike-in-homicides-this-month">Los Angeles</a>&nbsp;were up 250% compared to the previous week, while the total number of gunshot victims was up 56%. In Baltimore during the month of June as a whole, the incidence of homicide <a href="https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/">increased</a> by 29% over the corresponding rates for April and May. 
	 
	By embracing the hateful, destructive, anarchic message of Black Lives Matter and its openly Marxist leaders, urban America has willfully <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-suicide-of-the-cities/">signed</a> its own death <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-suicide-of-the-cities/">warrant</a>. Cities from coast to coast are now in the process of dying. Their respective tax bases are already fleeing – quite understandably and smartly – to safer environs, just like so many of their predecessors did after the riots of the Sixties. Why on earth would anyone want to invest his or her labor and capital in a business or a home that could be wiped out in a matter of minutes, whenever the next pack of raging vandals may feel a righteous impulse to lay waste to everything in its path? Any such an investment would be a very poor life decision. 
	 
	Thus, such investments are now a thing of the past. For instance, the&nbsp;Minneapolis&nbsp;manufacturing company 7-Sigma Inc., which was heavily damaged during the George Floyd riots, has decided to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/9/7-sigma-inc-minneapolis-manufacturer-to-flee-city-/">move</a>, as quickly as possible, out of the city where it has been headquartered for the past 33 years. Other local businesses say they fully <a href="https://cnsnews.com/blog/bailey-duran/businesses-leaving-riot-torn-cities-they-didnt-protect-our-people">intend</a> to follow suit. So, goodbye Minneapolis. 
	 
	And so long, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New York, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and Seattle.


	 
	The most enduring hallmarks of the cities that have been ravaged by the riots of recent weeks will be large tracts of ghost neighborhoods where abandoned homes and businesses stand, silently and pathetically, like the dilapidated ruins of dead civilizations. The raging Marxists of BLM have sown the wind, and now the whirlwind is theirs to reap. It is happening already.

BLM's Violence &amp; the Death of America's Cities

The police-hating rhetoric of&nbsp;the openly and proudly Marxist "Black Lives Matter"&nbsp;(BLM) movement is doing exactly what it did five years ago –

<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm/">Black Lives Matter</a> (BLM) was established in 2013 by a trio of self-identified Marxist revolutionaries. Striving to make white Americans “uncomfortable about institutional racism” and the “structural oppression” that allegedly “prevents so many [black people] from realizing their dreams,” BLM contends that blacks living under America's “white supremacist system” are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes.” That claim has become an article of faith for the millions of American leftists who dutifully parrot BLM's talking points. The remainder of this article is dedicated to providing hard data which exposes BLM's worldview as nothing more than a mountain of malicious lies. 
	 
	Debunking BLM's Claims About Police Use of Force 
	 
	A major Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)&nbsp;<a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ph98.pdf">report</a>&nbsp;in 2001 examined incidents where police in the United States used deadly force to kill criminal suspects between 1976 and 1998. During that 23-year span, 42% of all suspects killed by police were black – a <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1995/95sec4.pdf">figure</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1996/96sec4.pdf">comported</a> precisely&nbsp;<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1997/97sec4.pdf">with</a>&nbsp;the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1998/98sec4.pdf">percentage</a> of violent crimes committed by African Americans during that same period. This is enormously significant because we would expect that in police forces&nbsp;not&nbsp;plagued by systemic racism, officers would shoot suspects of various racial or ethnic backgrounds at rates closely resembling their respective involvement in the types of serious crimes most likely to elicit the use of force by police. And indeed, that is&nbsp;exactly&nbsp;what the evidence shows. 
	 
	The same BJS report found that in nearly two-thirds of all justifiable homicides by police during 1976-98, the officer’s race and the suspect’s race&nbsp;were the same. When a&nbsp;white or Hispanic officer killed a suspect, that suspect was usually (63% of the time) white or Hispanic as well. And when a black officer killed a suspect, that suspect was usually black (81% of the time). 
	 
	The BJS report also examined the rate at which officers killed suspects of&nbsp;other&nbsp;racial or ethnic backgrounds. In 1998, the “black-officer-kills-black-felon” rate was 32 per 100,000 black officers, more than double&nbsp;the rate at which white and Hispanic officers killed black felons (14 per 100,000). That same year, the rate at which white and Hispanic officers killed white or Hispanic felons (28 per 100,000) was much higher than the “black-officer-kills-white-or-Hispanic-felon” rate of 11 per 100,000. 
	 
	In 1999, criminologists Geoffrey Alpert and Roger Dunham&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/176330-1.pdf">confirmed</a>&nbsp;once again that police officers were more likely to use force against suspects of their own racial group, than against suspects from another racial group. 
	 
	A 2011 BJS&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf">study</a>&nbsp;which covered the period from 2003 to 2009 sheds further light on the issue of police use of force against people of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by police during that 7-year time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic. It is also worth noting that during the 2003-2009 period—when blacks were 31.7% of all suspects killed by an officer—blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes, which are the types of crimes most likely to trigger potentially deadly confrontations with police. These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they&nbsp;strongly&nbsp;suggest&nbsp;exactly the opposite.[1] 
	 
	In 2015, a Justice Department&nbsp;<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-releases-report-philadelphia-police-departments-use-deadly-force">study</a>&nbsp;of the Philadelphia Police Department <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/">found</a> that black officers were 67 percent more likely than their white colleagues to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect, and Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely to do the same. That same year, a&nbsp;<a href="http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2330443X.2015.1129918">study</a>&nbsp;of the New York Police Department by criminology professor Greg Ridgeway found that black officers were 3.3 times more likely than their white peers to discharge their guns in the course of their work. So much for the notion of trigger-happy white cops. 
	 
	In any given year, a mere 0.6 percent of black men&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/police-violence-against-black-men-rare-heres-what-data-actually-say/">report</a>&nbsp;that physical force of&nbsp;any kind – including mild actions like pushing and grabbing – is used against them by the police. The corresponding figure for white men is approximately 0.2 percent. Though both figures are infinitesimally small, critics of the police are quick to complain that the figure for blacks is three times higher than the figure for whites. But as&nbsp;National Review&nbsp;points out, that disparity is fully accounted for by the fact that “black men commit violent crimes at much higher rates than white men,” as evidenced by data from the annual National Crime Victimization Survey. 
	 
	The available <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/police-violence-against-black-men-rare-heres-what-data-actually-say/">data</a> indicate that a mere 0.08 percent of&nbsp;black men and white men alike&nbsp;are injured by police in any given year. This figure includes injuries sustained as a result of police actions that are legally justified, and often necessary, in order to thwart criminal behavior. 
	 
	In a 2018&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399">working paper</a>&nbsp;titled “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force,” Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who is African American,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/19/academic-research-on-police-shootings-and-race/">reported</a> that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects. In a separate analysis of officer shootings in three Texas cities, six Florida counties, and the city of Los Angeles, Fryer found that: (a) officers were 47 percent less likely to discharge their weapon without first being attacked if the suspect was black, than if the suspect was white; (b) black and white individuals shot by police were equally likely to have been armed at the time of the shootings; (c) white officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites; (d) black officers were more likely to shoot unarmed whites than unarmed blacks; and (e) black officers were more likely than white officers to shoot unarmed whites. There is no evidence of anti-black racism in any of these findings, though some of them do seem to suggest an anti-white&nbsp;bias. 
	 
	A 2019&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877">study</a>&nbsp;published in&nbsp;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&nbsp;shows that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. “In fact,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/">writes</a>&nbsp;Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, the study found that “if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians.” Specifically, Mac Donald adds, the authors of the study compiled a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and found that 55 percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic. 
	 
	Each and every year, without exception, whites who are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/">shot and killed</a>&nbsp;by police officers in the U.S. far outnumber blacks and Hispanics who meet that same fate. In 2017, for instance, 457 whites, 223 blacks, and 179 Hispanics were killed by police officers in the line of duty. In 2018, the corresponding figures were 399 whites, 209 blacks, and 148 Hispanics. And in 2019, the totals were 370 whites, 235 blacks, and 158 Hispanics. There is not a hint of anti-black racism&nbsp;anywhere&nbsp;in these figures. 
	 
	When we compare black rates of violent crime, with the rate at which blacks are shot and&nbsp;<a href="http://statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/">killed</a>&nbsp;by police officers, we find that blacks are represented among those shooting victims at rates significantly lower&nbsp;than we would have expected in light of their crime rates. For example, in 2017, blacks were just 23.6% of all people shot dead by police, even though they were arrested for&nbsp;<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/table-43">37.5%</a>&nbsp;of all violent crimes. The following year, blacks were 26.3% of those fatally shot by police, even as they were arrested for fully&nbsp;<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/tables/table-43">37.4%</a>&nbsp;of violent crimes. 
	 
	<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/19/academic-research-on-police-shootings-and-race/">According</a>&nbsp;to Heather Mac Donald: “The per capita rate of officers being feloniously killed is 45 times higher than the rate at which unarmed black males are killed by cops. And an officer’s chance of getting killed by a&nbsp;black&nbsp;assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.” 
	 
	Debunking BLM's Claims About Interracial Crime Against Blacks 
	 
	In 2012 and 2013, blacks in the U.S. committed an annual average of 560,600 violent crimes (excluding homicide) against whites, while whites committed a yearly average of 99,403 violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks were the attackers in about 85 percent of all violent crimes involving blacks and whites, while whites were the attackers in 15 percent.[2] 
	 
	When white offenders committed crimes of violence (excluding homicide) against either whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims 95.8 percent of the time, and they went after black victims a mere 4.1 percent of the time. By contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims a whopping 48.5 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 51.4 percent of the time.[3] If we factor into the equation the relative sizes of America's white and black populations, we find that,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/08/stefan_molyneux_lies_about_the_dangers_of_white_racism_do_a_massive_amount_of_damage_to_the_black_community.html">statistically</a>, any given black person in 2012-13 was about 27 times more likely to attack a white, than vice versa. 
	 
	In more recent years, the disproportionate prevalence of black-on-white crime has only gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-crime">2018</a>&nbsp;there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them, or about 9.5 percent. 
	 
	When white offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2018, they targeted white victims 97.3 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 2.6 percent of the time. By contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks during that same year, they targeted white victims 58 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 42 percent of the time.[4] 
	 
	City Journal&nbsp;<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-crime">reports</a>&nbsp;that according to Justice Department data, blacks in 2018 were overrepresented among the perpetrators of offenses classified as “hate crimes” by a whopping 50 percent—while whites were underrepresented by 24 percent. 
	 
	The facts presented above can lead us to only one possible conclusion: BLM's claim that African Americans are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes” is a monstrous lie. The purpose of the lie is to cause Americans of all races to detest their own country, so as to promote a desire to raze the nation's traditions to the ground, and to then erect a new Marxist utopia upon its ruins.


	NOTES 
	 
	[1] The annual violent-crime arrest statistics for 2003-2009, broken down by race, can be found here:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2003/03sec4.pdf">2003</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_38-43.html">2004</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html">2005</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_43.html">2006</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_43.html">2007</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html">2008</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html">2009</a>. 
	[2] Bureau of Justice Statistics,&nbsp;National Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13, Special Tabulation, Table 10.


	[3] Ibid. 
	[4] Bureau of Justice Statistics,&nbsp;Criminal Victimization, 2018, Table 14.

Exposing the Lies of Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) was established in 2013 by a trio of self-identified Marxist revolutionaries. Striving to make white Americans “uncomfortable about

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		John Perazzo is the author of&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Democratic-Partys-Destruction-Americas-ebook/dp/B07SKKMDG6/ref%3Dsr_1_1?dchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dperazzo%2Bbetrayal%26qid%3D1591252400%26sr%3D8-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591339312825000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhQ8Osd7_lt8DWVsS3qjR3EJ2B0g" href="https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Democratic-Partys-Destruction-Americas-ebook/dp/B07SKKMDG6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=perazzo+betrayal&amp;qid=1591252400&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Betrayal: The Democratic Party's Destruction of America's Cities</a>.

	
		Prior to the May 25th death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a major focus of the media during the preceding two weeks had been a video showing an incident where a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was fatally <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/father-son-charged-killing-black-man-ahmaud-arbery-70575513">shot</a> by two white men in Glynn County, Georgia. The killers say that they pursued Arbery, whom they suspected of having been involved in some recent local burglaries, when they spotted him running through their neighborhood – though some accounts claim that he was merely out for a jog. Eventually a fight broke out, and Arbery was shot and killed. After a video of the deadly altercation went public in early May, there were massive <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/father-son-charged-killing-black-man-ahmaud-arbery-70575513">protests</a> in Arbery's behalf. On May 8 – which would have been Arbery's 26th birthday – activist Al Sharpton used the Internet to lead a “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/podcast/into-america/transcript-movement-ahmaud-arbery-n1205406">virtual rally</a>” in the young man's memory, drawing some 105,000 participants.

	
		In an interview four days later, Sharpton, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/podcast/into-america/transcript-movement-ahmaud-arbery-n1205406">exhorting</a> members of the black community to “sustain” their “indignation” vis-a-vis the Arbery case for as long as possible, portrayed the Georgia killing as an extension of racist American violence dating back to the epoch of slavery: “It was expected that if you saw a black, that you would suspect that he was a runaway slave, and you had the runaway slave laws that … they would use that to hunt down blacks for vigilante groups, the KKK and others, all the way up until the modern era.” 
		 
		Television personality Oprah Winfrey likewise <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/tmz-oprah-surprises-ahmaud-arberys-mom-with-phone-call-gift">characterized</a> Arbery's death as a consequence of intransigent white racism: “He went out for a jog while being Black. I wonder what was he thinking in those last seconds of his life? Unimaginable to go for a run in 2020 and end up dead because of the color of your skin.” 
		 
		Notably, there is no record of either Sharpton or Winfrey uttering even a single public word in memory of 34-year-old Zackary Randalls, 37-year-old Mark Gassett, or 58-year-old David Jackson. You've never heard of these individuals, of course, because they were merely three white men who were <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1190171">murdered</a> three years ago in Fresno, California by Kori Ali Muhammad, a black racist who candidly sought “to kill as many white males as possible” – killings for which the perpetrator was convicted just six weeks ago. Regarding the Zackary Randalls murder, Mr. Muhammad has since <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/man-accused-in-fresno-rampage-said-he-was-fed-up-with-racism-found-some-white-men-to-kill-police-recording/">explained</a>: “When I walked up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want to target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The media, for some mysterious reason, didn't find the story compelling enough to cover. 
		 
		Neither is there any record of Sharpton or Winfrey <a href="https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/for-couple-slain-in-veterans-cemetery-visiting-son-s-grave-was-a-daily-ritual/article_865d146e-1e22-55b5-bd68-1c3961ce2c58.html">lamenting</a> the deaths of 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia, both of whom were murdered in cold blood by a black gunman on May 8 – the very day of Sharpton's “virtual rally” in honor of Ahmaud Arbery – while they visited the gravesite of their late son, Anthony, in a Delaware cemetery. To borrow Oprah's pithy maxim, we might say that Mr. and Mrs. Marino were just “visiting their son's grave while being white.” 
		 
		Other victims whose recent murders were ignored by media outlets and camera hogs like Sharpton and Winfrey include:

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			Joyce Whaley, Patricia Nibbe, and Nettie Spencer – <a href="https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-joyce-whaley-patricia-denise-nibbe-and-nettie-r-spencer-black-muslim-stabs-3-white-women-to-death-at-pilot-travel-center-in-knoxville/">three</a> middle-aged white women who were brutally stabbed to death by a black killer at a Tennessee <a href="https://wreg.com/news/three-workers-stabbed-to-death-at-tennessee-truck-stop-suspect-shot-and-killed/">truck stop</a> in early April;</li>
		<li>
			Heather Perry, a 21-year-old white woman who was <a href="https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/05/12/cornelius-haney-colfax-shooting-denver-police/">shot to death</a> in a Denver alleyway on May 9 by Cornelius Haney, a convicted armed robber who had just been released from prison in order to protect him from contracting the coronavirus;</li>
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			Logan Allen Stacks, a 17-year-old white boy who was <a href="https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/deputies-investigating-homicide-after-body-found-lancaster-county/V5C6XAKP7NEGPKZLLYH3MGHIBQ/">gunned down</a> by two black teens on March 27 in Lancaster County, South Carolina;</li>
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			Dr. Beth Potter, a 52-year-old white physician who dedicated her career to helping “underserved communities,” and her husband, educational consultant Robin Carre, who were shot <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/teens-charged-targeted-murder-wisconsin-doctor-education-coach/story?id=69976007">execution-style</a> by a pair of black teens on March 30 in Madison, Wisconsin; and</li>
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			Kristopher Dacus, a 33-year-old white man who on February 26 was shot multiple times and <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/feb/26/homicide-reported-north-little-rock/#.XluzpunhYaU.twitter">killed</a> by four black teens in the North Little Rock, Arkansas cemetery where he worked.</li>
	</ul>

	
		Let us assume for a moment that Ahmaud Arbery – who quite obviously was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIazUQWRtc">volatile and menacing character</a> with a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hOPi63mJDI">criminal history</a> – was in fact the innocent victim of a horrific, wholly unjustifiable murder. Even if that were the case, why should his death garner more attention from American media outlets and civil rights activists, than, say, the deaths of the 13 aforementioned whites whose lives were mercilessly snuffed out by black killers in 6 different states? Perhaps a case could be made in favor of such a double standard if white-on-black killings were commonplace in American society – on the theory that the condemnation of such occurrences might help raise people's collective consciousness about the deadly ramifications of white racism. But in fact, white-on-black homicides in the U.S. have been exceedingly rare for many decades. 
		 
		Conventional “wisdom” maintains that violent crime tends largely to be an intra-racial affair, where whites target mostly whites, and blacks target mostly blacks. This is certainly true for homicide, but much less true for other crimes of violence such as assault, rape, and robbery.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
		 
		Let us look first at homicides that involved whites and blacks during <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls">2012</a> and <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls">2013</a>. During those years, white killers nationwide chose to target white victims approximately 93 percent of the time, and black victims 7 percent of the time. Meanwhile, black killers targeted black victims 84.7 percent of the time, and white victims 15.3 percent of the time. 
		&nbsp; 
		But violence in America crosses racial lines much more frequently when the crimes in question are rape, robbery, and assault. In 2012 and 2013, for instance, blacks in the U.S. committed an annual average of 560,600 violent crimes (excluding homicide) against whites, while whites committed a yearly average of 99,403 violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks were the attackers in about 85 percent of all violent crimes involving blacks and whites, while whites were the attackers in 15 percent.[1] 
		 
		Those broad figures, however, do not even begin to tell the full story about interracial crime. To get a complete picture, we must also look at crime statistics from the perspective of the offender. That is, when a given violent offender chooses a victim to target for a crime, does he tend to target a victim who is a fellow member of his own racial group, or does he tend to go after a victim from another racial group? Here are the facts:

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		<li>
			When white offenders committed crimes of violence (excluding homicide) against either whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims 95.8 percent of the time, and they went after black victims a mere 4.1 percent of the time.</li>
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			By contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2012-13, they targeted white victims a whopping 48.5 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 51.4 percent of the time.[2]</li>
	</ul>

	
		If we factor into the equation the relative sizes of America's white and black populations, we find that, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/08/stefan_molyneux_lies_about_the_dangers_of_white_racism_do_a_massive_amount_of_damage_to_the_black_community.html">statistically</a>, any given black person in 2012-13 was about 27 times more likely to attack a white, than vice versa. 
		 
		In more recent years, the disproportionate prevalence of black-on-white crime has only gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-crime">2018</a> there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites in the United States. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90.4 percent, while whites committed 56,394 of them, or about 9.5 percent. Moreover:

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			When white offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks in 2018, they targeted white victims 97.3 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 2.6 percent of the time.</li>
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			By contrast, when black offenders committed crimes of violence against either whites or blacks during that same year, they targeted white victims 58 percent of the time, and they went after black victims 42 percent of the time.[3]</li>
	</ul>

	
		City Journal also <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-crime">reports</a> that according to Justice Department data, blacks in 2018 were overrepresented among the perpetrators of offenses classified as “hate crimes” by a whopping 50 percent—while whites were underrepresented by 24 percent.

	
		These numbers are staggering. If America were teeming with white racism, those guilty of interracial crime would be disproportionately white. But instead, the exact opposite is the case. Thus, the enormous amount of attention given to white-on-black attacks – which are statistically rare in the United States – is an obscene and senseless absurdity. The notion of ubiquitous white racism manifesting itself in unacceptably high levels of white violence against blacks, is one of the most destructive and monstrously evil lies of our time, creating levels of racial mistrust and animosity that are wholly unwarranted.

	
		NOTES 
		 
		[1] Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2012-13, Special Tabulation, Table 10.

	
		[2] Ibid. 
		 
		[3] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization, 2018, Table 14.
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The Truth about Interracial Violent Crime

John Perazzo is the author of&nbsp;Betrayal: The Democratic Party's Destruction of America's Cities.

	
		Prior to the May 25th death of George Floyd in

America is always just one George Floyd away from erupting into chaos. That's what has been made clear by the violent riots that turned Minneapolis and a number of other cities into war zones following Floyd’s death last Monday. The video <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/four-minneapolis-police-officers-fired-over-george-floyd-death/">footage</a> of white police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against the neck of a prostrate, handcuffed Mr. Floyd, is disturbing in the extreme. And indeed, it has been universally condemned by people along every point of the political spectrum. Chauvin has since been arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Meanwhile, the three fellow officers who were with him at the scene have been fired from their jobs, and Floyd's death is now being <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-police-bodycam-video-released-following-death-george-floyd-n1216661">investigated</a> by the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In short, the justice system is dealing with the matter in exactly the way that it should.


	But the vital question we must address is this:&nbsp;Why&nbsp;is America always just one George Floyd away from anarchy? After all, outside of Paradise there will&nbsp;never&nbsp;exist a place where there won't occasionally be George Floyds – white, black, and every other color – who lose their lives needlessly and unjustifiably. It's called the human condition, and it's been around for a very long time.


	Surely we can rage against that, as we may rage against any moral wrong. But what we have witnessed in the wake of Mr. Floyd's death is a rage directed not against a particular bad actor, but against what is perceived as an intransigent, generalized, all-pervasive evil. The angry mobs ravaging Minneapolis and other cities would have us believe that they are merely effecting a last-resort response to the fact that police abuse of blacks is an ongoing, all-too-common phenomenon throughout the United States. Desperate people must resort to desperate measures, they claim, when trying to shine the light of truth onto a dark reality. As one black protester <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/31/protester-unleashes-f-bomb-tirade-live-on-cnn-no-one-gives-a-f-k-about-us-unless-we-get-violent/">told</a> a reporter: “Nobody gives a f–k about us. OK? Unless we get violent. Y’all care about the s–t getting burned down, but what about when the KKK burning our s–t down?”


	The American left, by and large, dutifully embraces this perspective, as <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/05/29/joe-biden-george-floyd-death-ripped-open-this-ugly-underbelly-of-our-society/">evidenced</a> by the <a href="https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/george-floyd-death-lebron-james-kim-kardashian-cardi-b-1234617774/">many</a> high-profile <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/four-minneapolis-police-officers-fired-over-george-floyd-death/">figures</a> – white and black alike – who have written and spoken passionately about the George Floyd incident in social-media posts and elsewhere. Some examples:

<ul>
	<li>
		Minnesota Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar decried Floyd's death as “yet another horrifying and gutwrenching instance of an African American man dying.”</li>
	<li>
		Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said that the incident had “ripped open anew this ugly underbelly of our society.”</li>
	<li>
		Basketball star Lebron James posted side-by-side photographs of Officer Chavin with his knee on George Floyd's neck, and former NFL quarterback&nbsp;Colin Kaepernick kneeling during a pre-game national anthem as a gesture of protest against police brutality and racial injustice. James added the caption: “This ... ... Is Why. Do you understand NOW!!??!!?? Or is it still blurred to you?? #StayWoke.”</li>
	<li>
		Basketball Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote in an <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge">op-ed</a>: “Just as the slimy underbelly of institutional racism is being exposed, it feels like hunting season is open on blacks…. Racism in America is … everywhere.”</li>
	<li>
		Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who produced the 2019&nbsp;Netflix series&nbsp;When They See Us, which whitewashed the 1989 atrocities of the so-called “<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/06/central-park-5-were-murderous-thugs-john-perazzo/">Central Park Five</a>,” tweeted: “You [George Floyd] deserved your breath, your dignity, your life. Not to die in the street, murdered by a white cop’s knee on your neck. You deserve our tears, our prayers, our rage, our action.”</li>
	<li>
		Actress and producer Viola Davis lamented: “This is what it means to be Black in America. Tried. Convicted. Killed for being Black. We are dictated by hundreds of years of policies that have restricted our very existence and still have to continue to face modern day lynchings.”</li>
	<li>
		Actor/producer John Boyega tweeted: “This just burns. Seems to be a never ending cycle.”</li>
	<li>
		Model and actress Naomi Campbell wrote: “I don’t have the words. I’m sick and tired of this, tired of being sad about our people dying needlessly. Harassed and humiliated in these challenging times, I thought we could come to together, but it seems like this Coronavirus has bought out more racism in a major way.”</li>
	<li>
		Singer Demi Lovato tweeted: “This is not okay. And it will not stop until everyone does their part. Especially white people.... [U]ntil this STOPS COMPLETELY – THE BLACK COMMUNITY WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN DANGER.”</li>
	<li>
		A Washington Post opinion piece framed Mr. Floyd's death as “yet another <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/plagued-by-disease-unemployment-and-outrage-at-the-police-america-plunges-into-crisis/2020/05/29/c8329bb2-a1b5-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html">reminder</a> of how black people are killed by law enforcement in disproportionately high numbers.”</li>
</ul>


	The singular theme that runs through every one of the statements cited above – and serves as the subtext of the riots and street protests – is the perception that what happened to George Floyd is emblematic of the type of brutality that police in America routinely, selectively, and disproportionately inflict upon black people. Thus, the vital question we must answer is whether or not that perception is founded in truth, or in fiction.


	Over the course of many years, mountains of empirical evidence regarding this subject have been accumulated.


	Some of the most comprehensive information we have comes from a 2001 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ph98.pdf">report</a>&nbsp;examining incidents where police in the United States used deadly force to kill criminal suspects between 1976 and 1998. During that 23-year span, 42% of all suspects killed by police were black – a <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1995/95sec4.pdf">figure</a> that <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1996/96sec4.pdf">comported</a> precisely <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1997/97sec4.pdf">with</a> the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/1998/98sec4.pdf">percentage</a> of violent crimes committed by African Americans during that same period. This is enormously significant because we would expect that in police forces not plagued by systemic racism, officers would shoot suspects of various racial or ethnic backgrounds at rates closely resembling their respective involvement in the types of serious crimes most likely to elicit the use of force by police. And indeed, that is exactly what the evidence shows.


	Moreover, in nearly two-thirds of all justifiable homicides by police during 1976-98, the officer’s race and the suspect’s race were the same. When a&nbsp;white or Hispanic officer killed a suspect, that suspect was usually (63% of the time) white or Hispanic as well. And when a black officer killed a suspect, that suspect was usually black (81% of the time).


	How about the rate at which officers killed suspects of other racial or ethnic backgrounds? In 1998, the “black-officer-kills-black-felon” rate was 32 per 100,000 black officers, more than double the rate at which white and Hispanic officers killed black felons (14 per 100,000). That same year, the rate at which white and Hispanic officers killed white or Hispanic felons (28 per 100,000) was much higher than the “black-officer-kills-white-or-Hispanic-felon” rate of 11 per 100,000.


	In 1999, criminologists Geoffrey Alpert and Roger Dunham <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/176330-1.pdf">confirmed</a> once again that police officers were more likely to use force against suspects of their own racial group, than against suspects from another racial group.


	A 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf">study</a>&nbsp;which covered the period from 2003 to 2009 sheds further light on the issue of police use of force against people of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by police during that 7-year time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic. It is also worth noting that during the 2003-2009 period—when blacks were 31.7% of all suspects killed by an officer—blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes, which are the types of crimes most likely to trigger potentially deadly confrontations with police. These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they strongly suggest exactly the opposite.[1]


	In 2015, a Justice Department <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-releases-report-philadelphia-police-departments-use-deadly-force">study</a> of the Philadelphia Police Department <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/">found</a> that black officers were 67 percent more likely than their white colleagues to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect, and Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely to do the same. That same year, a <a href="http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2330443X.2015.1129918">study</a> of the New York Police Department by criminology professor Greg Ridgeway found that black officers were 3.3 times more likely than their white peers to discharge their guns in the course of their work. So much for the notion of trigger-happy white cops.


	In any given year, a mere 0.6 percent of black men <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/police-violence-against-black-men-rare-heres-what-data-actually-say/">report</a> that physical force of any kind – including mild actions like pushing and grabbing – is used against them by the police. The corresponding figure for white men is approximately 0.2 percent. Though both figures are infinitesimally small, critics of the police are quick to complain that the figure for blacks is three times higher than the figure for whites. But as National Review points out, that disparity is fully accounted for by the fact that “black men commit violent crimes at much higher rates than white men,” as evidenced by data from the annual National Crime Victimization Survey.


	Moreover, the available data indicate that a mere 0.08 percent of black men and white men alike are injured by police in any given year. This figure includes injuries sustained as a result of police actions that are legally justified, and often necessary, in order to thwart criminal behavior.


	In a 2018 <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399">working paper</a> titled “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force,” Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who is African American, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/19/academic-research-on-police-shootings-and-race/">reported</a> that police officers in Houston were nearly 24 percent less likely to shoot black suspects than white suspects. In a separate analysis of officer shootings in three Texas cities, six Florida counties, and the city of Los Angeles, Fryer found that: (a) officers were 47 percent less likely to discharge their weapon without first being attacked if the suspect was black, than if the suspect was white; (b) black and white individuals shot by police were equally likely to have been armed at the time of the shootings; (c) white officers were no more likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites; (d) black officers were more likely to shoot unarmed whites than unarmed blacks; and (e) black officers were more likely than white officers to shoot unarmed whites. There is no evidence of anti-black racism in any of these findings, though some of them do seem to suggest an anti-white bias.


	A 2019 <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877">study</a> published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&nbsp;shows that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. “In fact,” <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/">writes</a> Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, the study found that “if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians.” Specifically, Mac Donald adds, the authors of the study compiled a database of 917 officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015 and found that 55 percent of the victims were white, 27 percent were black, and 19 percent were Hispanic.


	Each and every year, without exception, whites who are <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/">shot and killed</a> by police officers in the U.S. far outnumber blacks and Hispanics who meet that same fate. In 2017, for instance, 457 whites, 223 blacks, and 179 Hispanics were killed by police officers in the line of duty. In 2018, the corresponding figures were 399 whites, 209 blacks, and 148 Hispanics. And in 2019, the totals were 370 whites, 235 blacks, and 158 Hispanics. There is not a hint of racism anywhere in these figures.


	When we compare black rates of violent crime, with the rate at which blacks are shot and <a href="http://statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/">killed</a> by police officers, we find that blacks are represented among those shooting victims at rates significantly lower than we would normally expect. For example, in 2017, blacks were just 23.6% of all people shot dead by police, even though they were arrested for <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/table-43">37.5%</a> of all violent crimes. The following year, blacks were 26.3% of those fatally shot by police, even as they were arrested for fully <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/tables/table-43">37.4%</a> of violent crimes.


	<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/19/academic-research-on-police-shootings-and-race/">According</a> to Heather Mac Donald: “The per capita rate of officers being feloniously killed is 45 times higher than the rate at which unarmed black males are killed by cops. And an officer’s chance of getting killed by a&nbsp;black&nbsp;assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.”


	In sum, there is a veritable Everest of evidence demolishing the fake, phony, fraudulent narrative of systemic police abuse aimed at African Americans. But the one trait that the raging rioters, the fervid protesters, the sanctimonious civil-rights leaders, and the preening celebrity tweeters all have in common, is their deep and abiding commitment to their own righteous rage. They very much want – and very much need – to believe that police brutality against black Americans is widespread and systemic. And they reflexively, indignantly rebel against any suggestion to the contrary, as though the foundational dogma of their holy faith were being called into question by blasphemous heretics.


	But in the final analysis, they are all quite full of it. No matter how deeply their hearts may be seared by grief in response to the latest unnecessary loss of an innocent life, and no matter how organic may be the wellspring of the tears that now moisten their eyes, the pained and pious countenances that they dutifully bear cannot transform their lies into truth.


	It is possible, you know, to do two reasonable things at once. That is, one can be outraged by the injustice that was done to George Floyd, without falsely portraying it as a microcosm of systemic racism by police officers across America. It is nothing of the kind.


	NOTE: 
	[1] The annual violent-crime arrest statistics for 2003-2009, broken down by race, can be found here: <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2003/03sec4.pdf">2003</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_38-43.html">2004</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html">2005</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_43.html">2006</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_43.html">2007</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html">2008</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html">2009</a>.


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The Truth About Police Violence and Race

America is always just one George Floyd away from erupting into chaos. That's what has been made clear by the violent riots that turned Minneapolis and a

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		The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a $592 million non-profit. It is&nbsp;also the creator and leader of the largest blacklist, by far, in American history. Its infamous list of “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map">hate groups</a>,”&nbsp;which currently consists of 940 separate entities in all 50 U.S. states, is the centerpiece of a massive smear campaign that conflates a small number of mostly insignificant fringe groups with entities whose sin is being politically conservative, but which are not “hate” groups in any meaningful sense of the word. 
		 
		By equating a smattering of&nbsp;actual&nbsp;hate groups with respectable conservative organizations, SPLC seeks to delegitimize conservatives as repugnant monsters whose viewpoints do not merit a hearing. And by labeling mainstream conservative individuals and organizations as “hate mongers,” it seeks to deprive them of the funding they need to reach an audience or even stay alive. Consider, for instance, the SPLC's branding of David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center,&nbsp;as an “anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim extremist” and as one of the “10 Most Dangerous Hatemongers” in the United States — solely because he opposes illegal immigration and warns against the dangers of Islamic jihad. 
		 
		After Horowitz gave a speech to the bi-partisan&nbsp;American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in August 2018, SPLC organized a boycott that singled out his remarks as worthy of suppression and called on ALEC’s corporate sponsors to withdraw their support. The actual sin Horowitz committed was confined to one sentence in which he referred to <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-lives-matter-blm">Black Lives Matter</a> as a “racist organization” and the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group.<a name="yiv5735300076_ftnref1"></a>[1]&nbsp;Within two weeks, 79 leftist organizations had joined the boycott. This led to the withdrawal of financial support by major corporations like Verizon, AT&amp;T, and Dow Chemical, and the loss of&nbsp;tens of thousands of dollars for ALEC. 
		 
		The following month, SPLC’s slurs were the basis of major media attacks smearing Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis as a “white supremacist” for appearing at a Restoration Weekend event hosted by Horowitz, who was described as “an infamous racist” in a headline that appeared in the&nbsp;Huffington Post. (As a side note to this baseless slander, Horowitz is a friend of Arianna Huffington — who founded but no longer owns the&nbsp;Post&nbsp;— and was married in her home.) 
		 
		The SPLC blacklist is&nbsp;enabled by — and could not be successful without — the mindless support of media outlets like the&nbsp;Washington Post,&nbsp;New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and so-called “liberal” organizations like <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/people-for-the-american-way-pfaw">People for the American Way</a> and <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/common-cause-cc">Common Cause</a>. It is also empowered by major support from billionaires like Apple CEO Tim Cook and JP Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon, and by the charitable arms of such major American corporations as Amazon. 
		 
		Amazon's alliance with SPLC is institutionalized in its&nbsp;popular “AmazonSmile” program, through which customers can purchase Amazon products at their regular prices and then indicate, at checkout, that they wish to have Amazon redirect 0.5% of the payment to a charitable nonprofit organization of the customer's choice. In fiscal 2018, AmazonSmile funneled some&nbsp;<a href="https://nationalcenter.org/advocacy/petition-short/?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=conservative_targeting&amp;utm_content=pen_paper">$44 million</a>&nbsp;to non-profits via this program. 
		 
		But not every governmentally recognized non-profit is eligible to receive Amazon’s largesse. Amazon warns its customers that “organizations that engage in, support, encourage, or promote intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence, money laundering, or other illegal activities are not eligible to participate.” Among the organizations denied Amazon charity on these grounds is the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the chief legal non-profit group committed to protecting religious liberty. ADF is ineligible for Amazon’s program because it defends the First Amendment rights of religious organizations to hold views that SPLC doesn’t support. 
		 
		ADF, by its own telling,&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cF6tDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT214&amp;lpg=#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">provides</a>&nbsp;legal&nbsp;advocacy&nbsp;“for the&nbsp;right&nbsp;of people to freely live out their faith,” with a specific focus on “cases involving religious liberty issues, the sanctity of human life, and marriage and family.” In other words, ADF thinks that if a religious organization opposes taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, or believes that marriage should be defined explicitly as a sacramental union between one man and one woman, such an entity should be allowed, in accordance with the First Amendment, to freely espouse those particular values. 
		 
		But to the leftists at the&nbsp;Southern Poverty Law Center, the defense of the First Amendment by organizations like ADF is a “hateful” endeavor which merits the group's inclusion in the SPLC blacklist. And AmazonSmile, in turn, has dutifully declared itself off-limits to ADF. As one AmazonSmile spokesperson has acknowledged: “We&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Eu6yDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA130&amp;lpg=#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">remove</a>&nbsp;organizations that the SPLC deems as ineligible.” And by that chain of unexamined “evidence” — i.e., the mere word of SPLC — the blacklist works. 
		 
		ADF is just one of scores of&nbsp;mainstream religious organizations that have been targeted by SPLC.&nbsp;In particular, SPLC depicts any entity objecting to transformative cultural changes involving homosexuals — such as gay marriage — as a “hate” group whose opinions have no more legitimacy than those of an Aryan militia. In this way, SPLC classifies the conservative Family Research Council, a Christian public policy ministry, as yet another purveyor of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council">hate</a>.&nbsp;And in accordance with SPLC's guidance, AmazonSmile has <a href="http://cafe.nfshost.com/?tag=family-research-council">removed</a>&nbsp;the Council from the list of charities eligible to receive AmazonSmile donations. 
		 
		The D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM), whose mission is to proclaim&nbsp;“the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.djameskennedy.org/about">Gospel</a>&nbsp;of Jesus Christ” as widely as possible, likewise opposes the notion that marriage should be redefined to include same-sex unions. Consequently, SPLC has defamed DJKM as yet another “active hate group.” And AmazonSmile, in turn, refuses to&nbsp;<a href="https://decisionmagazine.com/amazon-excludes-evangelical-group-based-on-hate-list-designation/">direct</a>&nbsp;any of its customer funds to DJKM. But in fact, there is not the faintest trace of “hate” in DJKM's message. As Ministries spokesman John Rabe has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/southern-poverty-law-center-hate-group-label-hit-in-evangelicals-lawsuit">said</a>: “We desire all people, with no exceptions, to receive the love of Christ and his forgiveness and healing. We unequivocally condemn violence, and we hate no one.” 
		 
		Other noteworthy Christian groups blacklisted by both SPLC and AmazonSmile include the Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC), the Ruth Institute, and the Saint Benedict Center — all of which are guilty of the apparently unpardonable sin of opposing same-sex marriage on religious grounds. When a <a href="https://catholicism.org/amazon-com-partners-with-hate-group-to-eliminate-unwanted-charities.html">spokesman</a> for the Saint Benedict Center, Brother&nbsp;André Marie, asked Amazon to explain why his Center had been barred from participating in AmazonSmile, the company told him candidly: “We rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center to determine which charities are in certain ineligible categories. You have been excluded from the AmazonSmile program because the Southern Poverty Law Center lists Saint Benedict Center Inc. in an ineligible category.” 
		 
		In stark contrast to its shabby treatment of the aforementioned Christian groups, AmazonSmile has had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational/posts/shop-on-amazon-and-benefit-cairamazon-is-one-of-the-most-widely-used-websites-in/10155501987737695/">absolutely</a>&nbsp;no objection to passing along 0.5% of its customer expenditures to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/council-on-americanislamic-relations-cair">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>&nbsp;(CAIR), which was co-founded by individuals with close ties to <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/hamas/">Hamas</a> —&nbsp;a proudly genocidal organization of murderous Jew-haters.&nbsp;Terrorism expert Steven Emerson, citing federal law-enforcement sources and internal documents, has bluntly described CAIR as “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.” 
		 
		AmazonSmile is likewise happy to funnel some of its customer funds to the Islamic Center of Jersey City (ICJC), an institution whose imam, in a recent sermon, not only&nbsp;<a href="https://nj1015.com/muslim-cleric-in-jersey-city-calls-for-death-to-jews-group-says/">characterized</a> Israeli Jews as “apes and pigs,” but also besought Allah's assistance in killing them, right “down to the very last one.” Moreover, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/mosques/404/islamic-center-of-jersey-city">former</a>&nbsp;ICJC imam was a Hamas activist who was named on a “List of Possible Unindicted Co-conspirators for the [1993] World Trade Center Bombing.” 
		 
		The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/islamic-circle-of-north-america-icna">Islamic Circle of North America</a>&nbsp;(ICNA) — a Jew-hating entity that praises terror attacks, supports the imposition of Sharia Law,&nbsp;promotes&nbsp;the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, has ties to the radical Pakistani group&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/jamaateislami-ji/">Jamaat-e-Islami</a>, and is closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood — is also an AmazonSmile&nbsp;<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/05/amazon-smile-liberal-splc-anti-semitic-groups/%20">member</a>&nbsp;in perfectly good standing. 
		 
		Similarly, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/islamic-society-of-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America</a>&nbsp;(ISNA), which promotes Sharia Law and Islamic supremacism, is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/isnahq/photos/a.154757791104/10155790860156105/?type=3">free</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;rake&nbsp;in loads of cash through AmazonSmile. Established by U.S-based members of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/muslim-brotherhood-mb/">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, ISNA was identified by declassified FBI&nbsp;memos as a Brotherhood front group as early as 1987. Four years after that, ISNA was explicitly named in a Brotherhood&nbsp;document as one of 29 likeminded Islamic organizations that shared the common goal of carrying out a “grand Jihad” in America and “destroying … Western civilization from within.” But it's not a “hate group,” according to the cheerful, grinning folks at AmazonSmile and the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
		 
		Obviously, the double standards of AmazonSmile are many. But perhaps most troubling is the fact that the single most&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/19/revealed-amazon-funding-partners-with-far-left-hate-group-southern-poverty-law-center/">noteworthy</a> beneficiary of the program is none other than the Southern Poverty Law Center itself. That's correct: The principal gatekeeper that determines who should, and who should not, be permitted to earn money through AmazonSmile, routinely stuffs its own deep pockets with AmazonSmile cash. Indeed, SPLC is currently the 33rd leading recipient of contributions through AmazonSmile. This of course is in keeping with SPLC's legendary aptitude for wringing every last penny out of every cash cow in the proverbial barn. Today SPLC boasts a $592 million endowment, of which nearly 30% is sheltered in offshore tax havens. 
		 
		In their crusade against conservative organizations, SPLC and AmazonSmile have plenty of company. For instance, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/color-of-change-coc/">Color of Change</a> has <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40456061/color-of-change-is-attacking-hate-groups-at-the-source-their-funding">pressured</a> corporations to cut all business and commercial ties to entities that SPLC designates as “hate groups.” 
		 
		Similarly, <a href="https://www.bloodmoney.org/">BloodMoney.org</a> will not be satisfied until all “financial service companies” stop “profiting from hate” by “tolerating the use of their services by hate groups.” In short, BloodMoney favors the blacklisting and economic suffocation of conservative groups in much the same way as AmazonSmile does. Particularly remarkable is the fact that BloodMoney has named none other than Amazon as a company guilty of conducting business with various “hate groups” that pursue “dangerous agendas.” In other words, AmazonSmile's blacklist doesn't go far enough for BloodMoney, which boasts that, as a result of its own blacklisting efforts, “158 funding sources&nbsp;have been removed from white supremacist sites.” 
		 
		In 2017, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal — much like AmazonSmile — <a href="https://thepointsguy.com/2017/08/credit-card-companies-cutting-ties-with-hate-groups/">blacklisted</a> a number of organizations deemed objectionable by self-anointed arbiters of “hate” like SPLC, Color of Change, and BloodMoney. As PayPal said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.paypal.com/stories/us/paypals-aup-remaining-vigilant-on-hate-violence-intolerance">statement</a>&nbsp;at that time, its own objective was to “ensure that&nbsp;our services are not&nbsp;used to accept payments or donations for activities that promote hate, violence or racial intolerance.” 
		 
		While aiming to deprive conservative organizations of funding from a host of sources, leftist entities like Amazon and SPLC unapologetically seek to pack as much cash as possible into their own massive coffers. Business Insider recently published an article speculating that Amazon founder&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>&nbsp;is on track to become the world's first&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-on-track-to-become-trillionaire-by-2026-2020-5">trillionaire</a>&nbsp;by the year 2026. And if present trends continue, the Southern Poverty Law Center's holdings may surpass the $1 billion mark at just about that same time. Such a parallel would be a fitting reflection of AmazonSmile's unique relationship with SPLC&nbsp;—&nbsp;one gang of reckless slanderers lining the pockets of another, in an obscenely crooked, rigged charade. 
		 
		The SPLC's massive blacklist is sustained by a powerful movement on the left and in the Democratic Party, which is determined to suppress its conservative opposition and create a one-party state — a feat it has already accomplished in our colleges and universities and in large swathes of our media institutions.

	
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Surrounded by his beloved family, radio broadcast legend Barry Farber died at home, in his bed, on May 6, one day after his 90th birthday. His daughter subsequently <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-barry-farber-obit-20200507-cbxm2dop2fgz7p2xuil4c2irfy-story.html">recounted</a> how her father had “told me recently that his concept of death was ‘going somewhere I’ve never been before, like Finland or Estonia.’” 
	 
	A marvelous individual who had been so many places during the course of his nine decades of life, Mr. Farber was a gentleman in every sense of the word. A world-class scholar, he was too humble and self-effacing to make a spectacle of his brilliance. Instead, he doled it out in bite-sized pieces with a clarity that could be easily digested by everyone from child to university professor; with an easy charm that could disarm even the most fervent political foe; and with an eloquence that routinely held his radio audience spellbound. 
	 
	Farber was born in Baltimore and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he witnessed enough anti-black discrimination to make him a passionate advocate of civil rights. Meanwhile, his early affinity for “<a href="https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/chinese-mandarin-sean-hannity-conservative/2020/05/09/id/966782/">social democracy</a>” dissipated when he observed the abject failure of big-government programs across the United States. Thus, the young Democrat evolved into a conservative who championed the type of limited government envisioned by the Founders and the Framers. 
	 
	After serving in the U.S. Army, Farber became a newspaper reporter and then entered the world of broadcast journalism as the producer of a New York-based interview program on WNBC. In 1960, he launched a new career as a radio talk-show host. While becoming one of the giants of the industry, Farber laid the groundwork – along with the late Bob Grant – for the giants who would come along a bit later: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, and others. 
	 
	One of Farber's most remarkable achievements was his success at learning foreign languages. In his teen and college years alone, he mastered Italian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. By the end of his life, Farber was fluent, to varying degrees, in more than 20 different tongues. In an interview he gave when he was 79, Farber described this accomplishment with his characteristic humor, humility, and understatement:

<blockquote>
	
		We have a <a href="https://youtu.be/a0B09a4EEj8?t=177">language club</a> [that meets] every Monday night in New York. And we advise those who come to the language club: When anybody asks you, 'how many languages do you speak,' it's dangerous to answer that with a digit higher than 1. Because somebody will come at you with some street slang in that language, and you'll lose your … credibility. So when you ask me, 'how many languages do you speak?', I give you the approved, politically correct answer. I say 'one.'&nbsp; And then you pause and take a breath, and you say: 'However, I am a student of' – and then you add as many languages as you like to think you speak. I am a student of about 21.
</blockquote>


	Even a very limited familiarity with another language, said Farber, could serve to bridge psychological and cultural gaps between people who otherwise might fail to recognize important things that they had in common:

<blockquote>
	
		In no other field [besides the study of languages] is there as much <a href="https://youtu.be/a0B09a4EEj8?t=239">difference</a> between knowing zero, and knowing a little. If you're into brain surgery, for example, there's very little difference between knowing nothing, and knowing a little. If you're into the flying or servicing of intercontinental jet aircraft, there's very little difference between knowing nothing, and knowing a little. But if you know one word of [a] foreign language … Next time you're in a cab, let's say the driver is black … and you see by his name that it ends in an 'eau.'&nbsp; […] He's got a French name and he's black. Ask him in English, 'Are you from Haiti?'&nbsp; The answer is always yes. And when he says yes, say [something in] Haitian Creole. That's his language. And you'll see the smile light up from the back of his head.... The minute you give him one word, one phrase of his language, the ice turns into steam [and] doesn't even waste time going through the stage of water.
</blockquote>


	Notably, Farber drew a <a href="https://youtu.be/a0B09a4EEj8?t=144">distinction</a> between language and communication, the latter of which is something far deeper: “You can't define communication, rapport between two people. But when it's not going on, you know it's not going on. I mean, you know when you're clicking. And you know when you're dropping a tulip leaf down the Grand Canyon and waiting for an echo.” 
	 
	Farber also emphasized the importance of putting one's own ego aside, so as to leave room for courteousness and consideration of other people's feelings:

<blockquote>
	
		Once upon a time I was at a <a href="https://youtu.be/a0B09a4EEj8?t=354">party</a>, and the [hostess] was very, very wealthy. [And] somebody else at the party worked for Christie's or Sotheby's, you know, one of those galleries. And she said … 'Jean, I've got a customer for that picture' – she pointed to a picture on the wall – 'for $72 million.'&nbsp; And the [hostess] didn't want to sell it. And the woman who asked her said, 'Why [not]?'&nbsp; And the [hostess] said, 'Well, I like to look at it.'&nbsp; That impressed me. 
		 
		A couple of days later, I was a guest at an investment banker's office in midtown Manhattan, and he was showing me around. He was very proud of the artwork in the office, and he pointed to a picture and said: 'You see there, that picture alone is worth $17 million.'&nbsp; Now, freeze. What is the natural human thing to do? The natural human thing to do is to say, 'Hey man, that's nothing. I was at a party the other night and I saw a picture worth $72 million.'&nbsp; Uh-uh. No, no.… You'll get what you want a lot quicker if you just sit there and let yourself be impressed. Why rain on his parade?… It's just common sense. Put yourself in his position.
</blockquote>


	Another guideline for good manners, said Farber, was this: “Don't ever ask things, the negative <a href="https://youtu.be/a0B09a4EEj8?t=445">answer</a> to which would make [the other person] feel bad. [For example,] 'Do you still date that movie star?' […] 'How about that play you told us about, [that] you were writing, last Thanksgiving?'&nbsp; But these are just two examples. Two communicatory snowflakes in an unending blizzard.” 
	 
	Farber took a brief break from broadcasting in 1970, when he ran for New York's 19th&nbsp;U.S. House District seat against leftist Democrat Bella Abzug. Though Abzug won, Farber made an impressive showing for a conservative running in Manhattan's heavily Democratic West Side. Part of his appeal was his <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/barry-farber-obituary-conservative-radio/2020/05/07/id/966546/">fearless</a> style. When Abzug refused to debate him, Farber would confront her on the street while she was campaigning and challenge her to impromptu debates in public. On one occasion, he held a pocket tape recorder up to Mrs. Abzug's face and demanded: “Would you like to repeat your charge that I'm a red‐baiter in front of all these people?” 
	 
	Following his election defeat in 1970, Farber returned to radio.


	Seven years later, Farber <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/chinese-mandarin-sean-hannity-conservative/2020/05/09/id/966782/">again</a> made a run for political office, this time seeking the mayoralty of New York City. After narrowly losing the Republican primary to Roy Goodman, he ran on the&nbsp; Conservative Party line in the general election and lost to Democrat Ed Koch. Mike Long, the longtime Conservative Party state chairman who managed Farber's Republican primary bid in '77, recalls that Farber “campaigned in different languages and wowed crowds with his humor and historical anecdotes.” 
	 
	From the late Seventies through 1989, Farber hosted an “Afternoon Drive” program on WMCA Radio in New York. In 1990, he became a national talk-show host on the&nbsp;ABC Radio Network. A few years after that, Farber, Michael Castello, and&nbsp;Alan Colmes&nbsp;collaborated to establish their own independent network, called Daynet. Farber eventually joined the Talk Radio Network&nbsp;as a weekend and fill-in host until 2017. And from 2009 to nearly the end of his life, he hosted a program on CRN Digital Talk. He made his final live broadcast the week before he died. 
	 
	Mike Thompson, who worked with Farber on radio in the early 1980s, says that Farber “<a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/barry-farber-obituary-conservative-radio/2020/05/07/id/966546/">captivated</a> any audience” with his skill as “a classic storyteller.” Central to that talent was Farber's ability to say just enough to spark the listener's attention, and just little enough to leave the listener begging to hear the rest of the story. Farber himself once <a href="https://youtu.be/BRFN9jjTGbw?t=1326">recounted</a> such an occasion:

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		'Charles Fawcett. American, Episcopalian aristocrat from Charleston, South Carolina, who married and divorced six Jewish women within 18 months to save their lives.'&nbsp; Now, is there anybody who can live without hearing the rest of that story?
</blockquote>


	Sean Hannity once said of Farber: “Barry blazed the trail for all of us today in talk radio. I'm honored to call him a friend and a great American.” Rush Limbaugh put it this way: “Barry Farber was a standout when it was difficult to get a talk show – you had to be among the best to be hired to host long-form talk. Barry Farber was … the best.” 
	 
	Talkers magazine honored Farber with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2012. Two years later, Farber was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. 
	 
	Barry Farber was undoubtedly blessed with a great deal of natural ability and aptitude. But he achieved greatness in his field through exceedingly hard work and focused determination. “The way to <a href="https://youtu.be/dwdiO3vPakQ?t=165">succeed</a>,” Farber once explained, “is to do first what the failures hate doing most.” 
	 
	In his later years, Farber was was asked how he personally defined success. He replied:

<blockquote>
	
		My <a href="https://youtu.be/dwdiO3vPakQ?t=218">definition</a> of success now is going to bed at night and realizing that there is nothing, there is nothing in your life that you have to apologize for. There is nobody you have wronged.... If you did, you made proper amends long ago. And there is absolutely zero-zero point zero-zero on your conscience.... Other elements of my life might be in chaos. But the important things are bull-proof and pig-tight. I don't owe anybody anything, and I haven't done anybody any wrong.
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	Those are the sentiments of a very good man who had his priorities in good order. That's what Barry Farber was. An extraordinarily good man who was too humble to ever boast about his prodigious and unique abilities. He will be greatly missed.

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