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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
After years of riots, including the latest outburst of pro-Hamas attacks targeting synagogues, churches, and Jewish restaurants, it turns out that there is a way to stop them after all.
New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella recently filed civil rights charges against a Neo-Nazi group which had been protesting outside a drag event at a cafe.
In December, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell filed civil rights charges against the same group for harassing drag events and migrant housing facilities. Campbell claimed that the Nationalist Social Club had “engaged in a concerted attempt to target and terrorize people across Massachusetts and interfere with their rights.”
The National Socialists didn’t actually do anything more (and arguably less) than BLM and Hamas supporters have spent the last three years doing to people around the country.
In New Hampshire, they were accused of banging on the windows and making intimidating gestures. In Massachusetts, they were charged with trespassing, intimidating hotel staff and disrupting the operations of hotels. They’ve also been accused of minor vandalism.
Name a leftist aligned protest movement that doesn’t routinely do all of these things.
The problem isn’t that Neo-Nazis are being charged when their behavior is illegal, it’s that the same kinds of behavior are treated as sacrosanct when practiced by eco-terrorists, BLM and now Hamas supporters who intimidate, threaten, interfere with operations and vandalize targets.
The two states claim that civil rights charges are legitimate because the Neo-Nazis targeted “minority groups”. But that’s exactly what Hamas supporters have been doing.
Massachusetts is the home of the ‘Mapping Project’ targeting Jewish institutions for protests which listed Jewish schools, synagogues and community groups.
This came after antisemitic incidents were at all time high in Manhattan.
In 2020, as part of a ‘Day of Rage’, terrorist supporters had marched to the offices of Jewish organizations while chanting calls for Intifada and the destruction of Israel. With a mob of 300, the Day of Rage had a much larger turnout than the paltry Neo-Nazi rallies.
No civil rights charges were filed.
Earlier in 2023, the National Socialists had been charged with a civil rights violation in New Hampshire for hanging up a “Keep New England white” banner. But at the University of New Hampshire campus, students had gathered to chant the “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” call for the destruction of Israel which was described as “protected speech”. Both are calls for getting rid of minority groups, but only one resulted in criminal charges.
Given the right political incentive, minor protest charges like trespassing, vandalism or disrupting a business that lead to nothing more than a desk appearance ticket (and usually not even that) for leftists are hooked up to civil rights laws that suddenly put real teeth into them.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire showed that the abusive behaviors we have been forced to take for granted from leftist protest movements have a legal recourse. Massachusetts had previously explored adding Neo-Nazis to gang member databases as an “unincorporated group”. Is there any reason that BLM rioters and Hamas supporters shouldn’t also be there?
During the BLM and pro-Hamas riots, the authorities insisted on describing any behavior short of blowing things up as “first amendment activities”. But they’re actually not. Blocking roads, streets and buildings is not a “first amendment activity”. And if you doubt that, try doing it while advocating for the Fourth Reich, Kim Jong-Un or some other socially unapproved cause.
The extended difference granted to leftist protesters is not a matter of law, but of privilege.
The same authorities that claimed that they are unable to do anything about even the most abusive protests enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act under which even the most non-violent forms of civil disobedience in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic are a federal crime that can lead to serious prison time. In the last few years, the FBI has raided the homes of abortion clinic protesters who did the same things that leftist protesters routinely do.
Last year, Eva Zastrow, who sat in front of the door at an abortion clinic to block people from going inside, was charged with multiple FACE violations. Some of her fellow protesters were charged with engaging in a conspiracy against civil rights and face 11 years in prison.
How is that possible? The Clinton administration decided that access to abortion clinics was a federal protected civil right and protesting against them was therefore a civil rights violation.
Pro-abortion protesters who broke into the Supreme Court and disrupted hearings on abortion were sentenced to nothing more than unsupervised probation while anti-abortion protesters face 11 years in prison for doing less than that. Faced with a protest or a riot that they oppose, like Jan 6, the authorities find legal tools for throwing everyone involved in prison for a long time.
Break into Congress to oppose Biden and you will spend years in prison, but break into Congress to oppose Republicans or support Hamas, and you get off with nothing or less than nothing. That’s because the tools are there left over from the civil rights era, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, the war on drugs or other events that gave federal and local law enforcement extensive and arguably unconstitutional powers for dealing with the crisis of the moment.
Both the use of those tools and the failure to use them are themselves forms of discrimination.
In recent years, the Biden administration, under Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg began charging passengers with federal crimes for getting into tussles with flight attendants, yet Hamas supporters have been able to invade and besiege airports, and even fly a balloon to ground planes near JFK without a single word from Buttigieg or any threat of intervention. Have too many drinks and you’re a federal offender, attack an airport for terrorists, and you’re fine.
In every case there are selective reasons for applying the law and for choosing not to do so.
What is not true is that there are no legal remedies. Instead the authorities file the same problems and the same behaviors under different categories for political reasons. A BLM or pro-Hamas riot targeting churches and synagogues is filed as a first amendment protected activity because it is categorized as a civil rights protest, while Neo-Nazis doing the same thing outside a drag event get locked up because they are categorized as violating civil rights.
These are not differences in behavior or even intent, but in the politics of the perpetrators.
We don’t have to live in a country in which race rioters and terrorists can block roads and airports, harass churches and synagogues, and endorse violence and domestic terror.
All we have to do is start categorizing their behavior as a violation of our civil rights.
People have a right to leave their homes. They have a right to visit their chosen houses of worship. And they have a right to attend their university of choice without harassment.
The First Amendment does not extend to intimidating, terrorizing, threatening and preventing people from living their lives. Once people are being blocked, harassed or threatened, it is no longer a legal protest, but a civil rights violation. And it should be treated as such. The failure to do so has normalized radicals fighting police, blocking people and roads, and filming themselves stalking and harassing passerby before posting the videos on TikTok.
The authorities have shown us that the tools exist to end this nightmare. They just need to be used. And if elected officials and prosecutors refuse, then those ready to act will replace them.
David Ray says
Those tools are strictly, and only for MAGA patriots.
As for me, I’m stocking up on more ammo.
mj says
In other words, applying the law “depends on the context”.
You know, first twist the meaning of the law, by allowing the meaning to be twisted…and suck the morality out of the law.
Then, apply the evil intent behind this twisted version of the law to accommodate a treasonous agenda of hate, victimization and chaos….
And finally, so as to clear up any lingering confusion and to silence opposition to this agenda, just make new, overriding laws that specifically support this agenda.
That’s the executive, judicial and legislative context in which we are living.
Mo de Profit says
The white people should know better, clearly people with darker skin are not able to control themselves like white supremacists.
That’s how the leftist elites think.
Hardball1Alpha says
Imagine if the KKK or some other white Ne0-Nazi group were given BILLIONS of dollars by Target, Walmart, Amazon, et.al, so as to ensure that they were not the target of riots… like BLM and the alphabet crowd have done so effectively.
It’s called a “self-feeding extortion loop”… pay up, or face online guilt trips and threats of urban violence.
Steven Brizel says
It is important to note that Biden’s DOJ clearly has a biased and weaponized view of who is a domestic terrorist
Hannah Katz says
Two levels of justice.
As for the BLM and Hamas rioters, are there no police dogs or fire hoses in NYC, DC, Chicago, Baltimore, SF, etc.?
Steven Howe says
Justice stopped being blind decade’s ago. Free speech is a one way street. They are coming for our churches and synagogues next. When did we begin to let the media decide what is right or wrong.
Algorithmic Analyst says
The police tactics are known also, but the Democrats don’t use them. That’s why the problems all occur in Democrat areas.
BLSinSC says
All this “prejudiced prosecutions” ties into something I’ve been saying for a LONG TIME! The “n” word!! It’s not nice when anyone other than black people say it. How can that be? If it’s so OFFENSIVE and can lead to CRIMINAL CHARGES then why allow it’s usage by ANYONE?? We need a LAW – a REAL ONE – that makes it ILLEGAL to use the “n” word in any shape or form! Remember all the teachers who have been fired for just READING something that contained the “n” word or even a variation! So let’s just RID our Nation of it – all the (c)rap , movies, rants, but carve out an exception for Historical Documents! When a TEACHER is harassed because using NEGRO for the color BLACK in a foreign language class, the stupid has gone too far!! When a LAW is applied to EVERYONE then sometimes things just don’t matter that much!! Call it the Racist Word Law!
Angel Jacob says
The laws don’t apply to black criminals and muslim terrorists.
They have both infiltrated our government.
Steve Chavez says
“BAN Demo☭RATS… From Sea to Shining Sea… AMERICA WILL BE FREE!” SC
(First time posted anywhere.)
The Com-Left protesters were offended when they saw a Confederate Flag on J6 while they hold up the Hammer and Sickle Flag? Their protests are led by Communist groups like ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Communist Party USA. They’re outraged by a few Neo-Nazi’s when their ideology has killed over a hundred million, OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND STILL COUNTING AND ENSLAVING!
A lone punk, Dylan Roof, shoots up a church and in his home selfie, there was a Confederate Flag on his wall that was the catalyst to The Ban Movement. (Dukes of Hazzard…. really?) Now they ban and tear down everything including our Founding Fathers and WHEN, not if, they control SCOTUS, they will ban the Constitution itself for being unconstitutional!
EVERY UNIVERSITY has a Code of Conduct Rules and I’ve used the ones at the University of New Mexico on protesters, students, and outsiders while DEMANDING that their own Rules be enforced. During a Milo Yiannopoulos speech, Albuquerque had its first appearance of ANTIFA led by Joel Marcos Gallegos (FB page “Marxist-Leninist”) and head of the groups mentioned above except CPUSA. They destroyed property and held us hostage inside the Student Union. There were four police agencies and after forty-five minutes, they escorted out WITH A SWAT TEAM ON HORSES while they corralled the mob around the corner.
Steve Chavez says
“ENFORCE YOUR OWN RULES!” Next test… Tomi Lahren. Sept. 2022. I went early to make sure we were protected. UNMPD said the doors were locked and the protesters couldn’t get in plus they had barriers that would stop them. Ten minutes into her speech, they easily walked in and banged on the walls so hard they put holes. A fire alarm was pulled. I called 911 three times. Students were crying. We covered the doors while a female PD was desperately holding the door closed as they tried to pull it. Youtube videos showed the mob attacking police. A MASSIVE COVER-UP NOW! I met with the police, wanted all reports, none were filed. I went to the Union director why no report was filed for the massive damage to walls, “We took care of it internally.”
Next was Riley Gaines. Days ahead, I met with PD and they totally blocked the area and had PD all over the area. No disruptions could be heard. Four PD inside the event were clapping at her statements. Three protesters got in but they couldn’t disagree with what she was saying, “A man was in the locker room, totally nude, and we were shocked and covered up. We told our coach and he said we had to deal with it.” No reports needed.
CODE OF CONDUCT RULES! STUDENTS MUST DEMAND ENFORCEMENT!
Kasandra says
We are living in Herbert Marcuse’s world of “repressive tolerance.”
RAM says
With the rule of law far back in our rear view mirror, we can expect selective law enforcement at the whim of key officials. Clearly, these don’t much like either America or Israel. Many are taking enemy money. We can still vote, for now, which is why so much official effort is focused to nonstop lies and fixing the next elections.
SPURWING PLOVER says
So when will they finally start attesting the Looter s and Rioters when will they crack sown on Antifa and BLM when soon can we see those who instigate all this be held responsible for it all? Its time to start sending them all to Prison for their Crimes
Maha says
Demonstrations, protests, or gatherings of more than a few people need to be permitted by the jurisdiction in which it occurs. Simple. Block egress or access? A fine and arrest. Block a highway? A felony. The first and immediate response should be breaking up the demonstration with whatever force is required. These winter protests on the Brooklyn Bridge would dissipate quickly if the NYC Fire Department aimed water hoses at the idiots blocking the bridge.
In response to some protestors that blocked a road by standing in a crosswalk, make standing in a crosswalk without moving a fine-worthy offense.
Now we need to enforce laws. And vote out the morons who won’t.
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent and despicable terrorists of Hamas and BLM who have joined their together against Jews and Christians are not only fated to lose in the end but also will not get away with their evil actions without impunity.
For the Bible informs its reader “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.”
Proverbs 11:21. [ N.K.J.V.]
So it’s no wonder that those terrorists of Hamas and BLM hate the Bible.
Walter Sieruk says
A jihadwatch.org article informs the reader that “The Black Lives Matter organization has embraced the movement known as the Red /Green alliance” which is the Communist -Islamic alliance.
Hamas, was started and is still funded by that Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
The jihadists of Hamas hate the Jewish people and they hate Israel and want to destroy her.
Likewise, the BLM members strongly dislike and even hate the Jew’s. This they have proven repeatedly by their words and actions.
That much Hamas and BLM have in common. Nevertheless, in the United kingdom or the United States of America the BLM members don’t realize of know it but they are only the what are called the “useful idiots” of the jihadists in their quest for the advancement of Islam and the establishment of Sharia law in all nations.
In other words, those jihadists use the BLM members as their stooges and tools to fulfill their Islamic agenda.
If successful in their Islamic agenda those violent jihadists will turn on their BLM stooges who they use as their tools for they might get in the way of the enactment of Sharia law which is very strict harsh and cruel.
Related to all this it might be of interest to some BLM members that a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one of those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”
Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact, Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
Michael L Lensegrav says
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Chris Shugart says
“The legal tools are there. The authorities choose not to use them.”
Well, that applies to nearly every issue anyone can think of. Though painfully obvious, it might make a good campaign slogan for anyone who’s serious about saving our Republic.
Don Draper says
Unlawful imprisonment is a felony, and given the ofttimes explosive nature of the protester’s emotions, deadly force for self defense SHOULD be a legal and proper option.