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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"21"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2103451590083741219"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-24T03:38:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-24T03:38:14.360-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A BLM Supporter Tried to Kill a Police Officer: That's the Terrorist Threat We're Not Discussing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Briana Sykes spent over a year broadcasting the racist hate of the Black Lives Matter movement. Last year, she reposted a message from Senator Bernie Sanders, promoted by BLM activist Shaun King, stirring up anger over false claims about Breonna Taylor, who was killed when her drug dealer boyfriend opened fire on police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s736\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“Our criminal justice system is racist,” the Sanders smear of the police falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly afterward she posted an anti-police cartoon distributed by the Black Berner Coalition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana promoted a Black Lives Matter \"economic boycott\" and the claim that BLM rioters were \"compelled to burn s___ down\" because they're an \"oppressed group\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver the summer, the same account linked to Briana Sykes spread disinformation that the Trump administration had \"literally killed hundreds of protesters in front of the White House\". The #DCBlackout hoax was spread by pro-BLM accounts. It was not clear who was behind a seeming attempt at inciting violence, but researchers suspect it was an enemy government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then after over a year of hate and Bernie Sanders memes, Briana Sykes tried to murder a police officer at a Juneteenth parade in Flint, Michigan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to authorities, Briana drove up to a police officer and opened fire on him. The officer shot back, wounding the 19-year-old woman. While the officer wasn’t hit, according to a black eyewitness, he “fell to the ground crying because… he didn’t want to do whatever he had to do.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA fellow officer, black, is seen assisting him on the video.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECell phone video appears to show that the unnamed white officer was still trying to give her a chance to surrender, shouting, “Show me your hands!”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERisking his life to avoid another police shooting didn’t pay off. It happened anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe local BLM chapter’s social media responded to the shooting with hate and incitement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have been inculcated to accept Native Black people being MURDERED at the hands of “PROTECT AND SERVE”!“ one poster shrieked. “WE ARE NOT IGNORANT! We also call for  first degree murder charges and that this killer cop’s pension be forfeited!”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana Sykes died at the hospital and now authorities are trying to figure out her motive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the motive is all over her social media which is littered with BLM anti-police hate. Some of that hate intersects with Bernie Sanders material. The two vectors of radicalization are clear and outside the new domestic terrorism guidelines drawn up by the Biden Administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenate Democrats, led by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/12\/cory-booker-protected-terrorists-behind-jersey-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESenator Cory Booker\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/10\/kamala-harris-denied-black-supremacists-existed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EKamala Harris\u003C\/a\u003E, had already pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups.“So, you no longer use the term Black Identity Extremism,” Booker had grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray. “That's great news.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was terrible news for local police and the Jewish community in Jersey City which came under attack by two black nationalist terrorists. But the new Biden domestic terrorism guidelines compound the problem that may have led to the mass shooting at a Jewish supermarket by separating out white nationalists while classifying black nationalists as “anti-government”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/bidens-terror-strategy-defines-republicans-new-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EBiden terrorism guidelines\u003C\/a\u003E describe Micah X. Johnson, the black nationalist activist who murdered 5 white Dallas police officers, as an anti-government extremist. Johnson was one of a number of BLM supporters who killed or tried to kill police officers. Briana Sykes is just the latest. And while Democrat House members have celebrated Capitol Police personnel, they’ve shown no interest in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/405-law-enforcement-officers-were-injured-black-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehundreds of police officers\u003C\/a\u003E wounded in their BLM race riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s because the Democrat establishment is deeply entangled with the racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Flint, the scene of the latest BLM terrorist attack, Mayor Sheldon Neeley had created a Black Lives Matter Advisory Council for the local police and had joined the hate group's local rallies. Chief Phil Hart had forced Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation training on the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPandering to the black nationalist pro-crime hate group backfired in Flint, as it did everywhere else, with a 32% increase in murders while non-fatal shootings \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/2021\/05\/flint-homicides-up-more-than-30-percent-this-year-as-city-asks-residents-for-help-to-curb-violence.html\"\u003Edoubled\u003C\/a\u003E. By the time the Juneteenth parade arrived there wasn’t much to celebrate in Flint. Just more killing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat role did the promotion of Black Lives Matter by Flint Democrats play in the radicalization of Briana Sykes? And what impact did the Bernie Sanders fanbase, who have become notorious for promoting disinformation and extremist material, have on her state of mind?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2017, James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, opened fire on Republicans at a charity baseball game in D.C. The FBI covered up the terrorist attack by falsely claiming that Hodgkinson had been trying to commit suicide and had not been targeting anyone despite his possession of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/killing-republicans-save-health-care-and-planet-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ea target list\u003C\/a\u003E and a conversation in which he specifically sought out Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHodgkinson, like Briana Sykes, had spent a lot of time spreading hate on Facebook. He had even belonged to a group named, “Terminate the Republican Party”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s likely that this latest shooting by a radicalized Bernie Sanders supporter will be treated the same way. But even while the Biden administration defines Trump supporters as terrorists, the Bernie Sanders base and Black Lives Matter remind us who the real terrorists are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat made Briana Sykes open fire on a police officer? The answer is right in front of us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats and their media are inciting violence against the police. It can’t come as a surprise when someone takes their big lie that police officers are racist killers and acts on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana Sykes was an ordinary product of her environment. She spent her time online listening to music celebrating violence and imbibing political propaganda demonizing the police. We don’t know exactly what went through her mind, but after being told for years that police officers plot to kill black people, she might have decided that any officer she saw was coming to kill her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the media has demanded that Facebook and other social media platforms censor conservatives, it has shown no interest in shutting down the kind of leftist disinformation that may have radicalized Hodgkinson and Sykes. That’s because it’s their disinformation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBriana’s death will only feed the cycle of extremism as BLM supporters use her death to transform her into a martyr to their racist cause. Like any terrorist organization, the death of its own people fuels the BLM momentum. Every black person killed in a confrontation with a police officer incites more violence and more payouts. The ugly reality of Briana’s death is that she died trying to murder a police officer so that the Democrats who ruined her city and state can rig more elections, and so that BLM leaders can buy more mansions.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2103451590083741219\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/a-blm-supporter-tried-to-kill-police.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2103451590083741219"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2103451590083741219"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/a-blm-supporter-tried-to-kill-police.html","title":"A BLM Supporter Tried to Kill a Police Officer: That's the Terrorist Threat We're Not Discussing"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VfYtE22nSn0\/YNQ2W0VmGJI\/AAAAAAAATUg\/BAU6WFS4U2cJr1AKIJ5b6__bkJ-QuiwrwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/shooting%2Bframe.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-312877976445081122"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-16T06:33:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-16T06:33:00.454-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"entertainment industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BLM Goes Hollywood"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A few years ago, CAA announced that it had signed on to represent Patrisse Cullors. The powerful Hollywood talent agency is considered the biggest firm of its kind and doesn’t usually represent activists. But the Black Lives Matter co-founder isn’t a typical activist either.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the time that Cullors was being represented by the talent agency, the self-proclaimed “trained Marxist” was going from award dinners to studio events. Most speaking fees aren't made public, but last year, Cullors, along with the other two co-founders of the racist BLM hate group, charged the University of Florida \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.alligator.org\/article\/2020\/06\/black-lives-matter-founders-to-be-paid-10-000-each-to-speak\"\u003E$10,000 each\u003C\/a\u003E to address students online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s606\/patrisse.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"433\" data-original-width=\"606\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/w320-h229\/patrisse.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen she isn’t charging thousands to video chat, Cullors curated ComplexCon, a BLM global art show, and worked on an ad campaign for Adidas with Pharell Williams, claims to be a “dancer, choreographer, designer, stylist, producer, and director.”  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECullors got to consult for Good Trouble, a lefty Disney TV series, about two girls, one white and one Latino, who move to Los Angeles and fight racial injustice. Another way of saying that is, she gave a show run by a white lady who used to act on The Bold and the Beautiful street cred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You only have to spend about five minutes with Patrisse to be blown away by her as an activist, artist, intellectual and force of life energy, love, joy and humanity,” Good Trouble showrunner Joanna Johnson raved. “She has such a wealth of knowledge and life experience. I’m always looking for that in writers because truth is not only stranger but more nuanced and rich than fiction can ever be.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth is indeed stranger than fiction. Just ask the Black Lives Matter founder who went from a year in which the hate group's race rioters burned buildings and terrorized communities to buying a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dirt.com\/gallery\/more-dirt\/politicians\/black-lives-matter-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-lands-topanga-canyon-compound-1203374803\/patrissecullors_tc1\/\"\u003E$1.4 million home\u003C\/a\u003E in the mostly white Topanga Canyon through a corporate entity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike every proper trained Marxist should. As an amateur Marxist, Cullors had to settle for the San Fernando Valley, but as a fully trained Marxist she got “vaulted ceilings clad in knotty pine” and “whitewashed hearth fireplaces.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness and whitewashing isn’t all bad. Especially when white studios are paying for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Topanga Canyon home has \"soaring ceilings\", \"skylights\", and is ideal for \"quietly contemplating cross-canyon vistas framed by mature trees\" or the next town your hate group is going to burn. There's even an art studio and politically incorrect \"maids quarters\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe house is down the road from one of the homes involved in the Manson murders which seems only appropriate since Manson wanted to start a race war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Black Lives Matter is carrying on Manson’s work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was reportedly Cullors’ fourth home purchase after \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/\"\u003Ebuying a ranch\u003C\/a\u003E on three acres in Atlanta with a private airplane hangar and shopping around for a luxury home in the Bahamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Cullors signed a deal with Warner Brothers to “develop scripted dramas and comedies, docuseries and animated programming for children, young adults and families”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECullors also has her own anti-police organization, Dignity and Power Now, run by Lamia Al-Sadek, the former county director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, and two white people, near USC. And she also has her own consulting firm with her lover, Janaya And Patrisse Consulting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unclear if either of these were the entities that Cullors used to buy her $1.4 million home, or if she has other organizations in her portfolio that have yet to be exposed and revealed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Cullors went with CAA, Alicia Garza, the second BLM co-founder, went with ICM, and her book, Purpose Of Power, came out last year. Garza is also due to appear in the HBO adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ racist rant, Between the World and Me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EICM’s previous coup was boasting about the role of \"client Josh Hartnett\" in the HBO \"documentary\" Exterminate All the Brutes which \"shifts perspectives by highlighting America's founding as inherently genocidal\". It’s no wonder that the entire roster of BLM’s founders have found a comfortable home in an entertainment industry that hates America as much as they do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpal Tometi, the third BLM co-founder, got on board with WME, the rival CAA Hollywood talent agency, which Hollywood Reporter noted had signed stars like,“Elton John, Eva Longoria, Shakira, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Cooper, and Opal Tometi.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can read about all this in Opal’s official press releases, in between telling a newspaper, “I do this because we deserve to live.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd deserve to live very well too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWME used Opal Tometi to launch its Social Justice Now Film Festival through Film Life Foundation, a non-profit founded by Opal and Marvel star, Michael B. Jordan. Sponsored by Sony, Amazon, Heineken, J.P. Morgan, and other great outposts of social justice, the festival’s message is “translate art into change” and features movies like, Who Will Survive America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard surviving America while being sponsored by a Japanese electronics firm, a Dutch beer conglomerate, and a banking firm whose predecessors had used slaves as collateral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpal also has her own production company, Blue Opal Productions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike Cullors and Garza, both of whom came out of Los Angeles, Opal came from Arizona, but Hollywood is the common denominator of the founders of Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe founders of BLM have gone to work acting, writing, consulting, and promoting for Hollywood because their racist hate movement was always an entertainment industry production. BLM’s race riots destroyed communities and small businesses, but its brands and buzzwords were a corporate marketing campaign backed by industry talent. Like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it was a production, even if the physical destruction of the riots was all too real.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy shouldn’t Cullors get a house in the area where Quentin Tarantino filmed a scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and where movie stars house their pets at the Topanga Pet Resort?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all made in Hollywood anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth is stranger than fiction. But Hollywood also specializes in turning fiction into truth. Why not set the country on fire, elect some Democrats, and get some new content in the pipeline?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood had been stagnating. Every piece of IP or intellectual property had been locked down by giants like Disney, and the staggering cost of Silicon Valley streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime sinking billions into developing original content to keep subscription viewers on their plantation had made it impossible for much of the old industry to compete on its own turf.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow there are books to adapt into movies, TV series to launch, and countless entertainment industry products to sell to guilty liberal suburban moms who joyfully grapple with the depths of their own racism by binge watching black pain. And there are the BLM co-founders to help Hollywood get all the political cred that it needs to make a killing out of racism on a budget.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget Hearst’s \"You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war.\" The war is easy to furnish. It’s the pictures that are expensive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe damage from the BLM race riots surpassed $2 billion. That sounds like a lot of money, and individually it wiped out countless businesses, crushed neighborhoods and communities, and took more lives and dreams than will ever be accounted for, but that’s nothing compared to the $17 billion that Netflix blew on programming in just one year. And the best part is that $2 billion was entirely paid for by ordinary Americans, insurance companies, and non-industry types.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeasants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThink of the Kenosha riots as the Atlanta burning scene in Gone With the Wind. But no Hollywood studio had to sacrifice its own sets to produce all that footage. Race rioters were happy to burn down American cities as publicity for Hollywood social justice projects. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome consulting and acting gigs for the marketable founders of the racist hate group is a small price to pay for Warner Brothers to use HBO Max to compete with Netflix. It’s been a long time since Warner Brothers meant the conservative Warner brothers, Jewish immigrants and Republicans who appeared before HUAC, and declared, “We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia the people who don’t like our American system of government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner Brothers and HBO Max, like CNN, are cultural death rays of the AT\u0026amp;T death star. Or, as a CNN reporter described the riots, “fiery, but mostly peaceful” death rays.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only there were a fund to ship AT\u0026amp;T, Netflix, and Disney to Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter BLM fades, there will be new productions, spectacles, and extravaganzas to excite, humiliate, and distract the attention of Americans from the havoc being wreaked on their country as a handful of entangled companies fight for supreme dominance in the oligarchy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd BLM’s co-founders have found a good exit strategy with production companies, organizations, and homes in an industry that knows the value of a good show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomewhere, Captain David Dorn’s widow is mourning her husband. And the other victims of BLM are immersed in their own private griefs for lost children, spouses, and parents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut in Hollywood, the mansions only get bigger and the party never ends.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/312877976445081122\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/312877976445081122"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/312877976445081122"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood.html","title":"BLM Goes Hollywood"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w320-h229-c\/patrisse.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8879347787098523440"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-26T13:27:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-26T13:27:55.706-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"riots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On May 31st, a violent Black Lives Matter mob burned American flags, threw bottles at police officers, and started a fire in the historic ‘Church of Presidents’ which had been visited by almost every president. Another building was set on fire, and windows across the area were smashed by the rampaging BLM mob wielding baseball bats, bricks, and even more lethal weapons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s798\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHelicopter footage showed the Washington Monument wreathed in smoke from the fires set by the massive BLM assault on the center of our government. But while the BLMers assaulted numerous buildings, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, and had vandalized historical landmarks, including the Lincoln Memorial, the real target of the radicals was the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E60 members of the Secret Service and 150 law enforcement officers in total were eventually injured. As the BLM mob assailed the White House, the Secret Service took President Trump and his family to a bunker: an eventuality meant to deal with terrorist or nuclear attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter mobs didn’t break through to the White House, but they \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrEricAngelo\/status\/1267295971664371712?s=20\"\u003Emanaged to set the\u003C\/a\u003E White House guardhouse on fire. Instead of condemning this extremist assault on our nation, Democrats supported the rioters and falsely claimed that law enforcement had assaulted “peaceful protesters” for a “photo op”, and demanded the removal of the National Guard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats and their media allies sneered at President Trump for retreating to a bunker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBarack Obama, as the first black man to sit in the White House, a D.C. resident, and the politician who had done the most to bolster the racist and radical BLM movement burning American cities, had the opportunity to put out the fires. Instead he poured on more gasoline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the White House attack, Obama delivered a speech at his own foundation’s event which made no mention of the assault on the house he had formerly occupied or the threat of violence to his successor. Obama then spoke to Brittany Packnett Cunningham, described as, “one of the most prominent activists behind the Black Lives Matter movement” whom he had appointed to serve on his Task Force on 21st Century Policing after the Ferguson riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama began his speech by once again accusing America of racism, which he described as an \"original sin\", and praised the mobs terrorizing the country. Instead of condemning the violent attack on the White House, he falsely claimed that the violence was the work of a \"tiny minority\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, putting the lie to his false claim, he chatted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham who had previously urged attendees to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppaoregon.org\/2020\/06\/01\/our-commitment-black-lives-matter\/\"\u003Erepeat \u003C\/a\u003Ea chant by domestic terrorist Assata Shakur still wanted by the FBI for her role in the murder of a police officer. Shakur is the icon of BLM and while Democrats accuse Republicans of being domestic terrorists, the movement they embraced is built around one of the FBI’s top ten most wanted terrorists from a violent racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe month before, she had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mspackyetti\/status\/1266028826028580866?lang=en\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E Martin Luther King's quote about a riot being the \"language of the unheard\" while appending her own text, \"Property damage at protests, 101\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only wasn’t the violence coming from a tiny minority, but Obama’s own event was complicit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s speech described the turmoil as “profound as anything that I’ve seen in my lifetime”, and urged that, \"at some point, protests start to dwindle in size. And it's very important for us to take the momentum that has been created… and say, let's use this to finally have an impact.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery American man and woman who had been assaulted, robbed, and threatened by Obama’s mobs felt the impact. The police officers in the hospital, the shopkeepers sifting through the rubble, and the dead in the BLM riots felt the impact. Obama could have stopped the violence, instead his political support for the violent racist BLM terrorists helped keep the riots going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile in the White House, Obama had helped incite the racist BLM movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Ferguson riots broke out after Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and assaulted a police officer, Obama and his administration incited violence by spreading false claims without evidence that Brown had been an innocent victim of police racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe DOJ attempted to suppress the surveillance video showing Brown’s attack on a minority store clerk, and Democrats refused to stop spreading false claims that he had been murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecently, Senator Kamala Harris doubled down on the lie, inciting violence by falsely claiming that “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama claimed that “the anger and the emotion that followed his death awakened our nation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM racial terrorist movement, backed monetarily by left-wing foundations and corporations, timed its riots to coincidence with election years. These were not mere race riots: they were and are election riots that exploit the shooting of a criminal to help the Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe biggest years of BLM and proto-BLM riots in 2014, 2016, and 2020 were election years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Obama and the Democrats fed the racial supremacist agenda of BLM, they were engaging in a campaign of political terror to turn out votes and tilt elections in their favor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2016, the BLM riots surged again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn July 7, 2016, Obama delivered a speech from the Marriott in Warsaw falsely accusing the police of racism against black people. That same day, Micah X. Johnson, who had attended BLM rallies, set out to murder as many white Dallas police officers as he could. He killed 5.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama spoke at the funeral of the police officers in defense of the racist hate group that killed them, and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/obamas-obscene-exploitation-dallas-massacre-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E continued to\u003C\/a\u003E incite violence by falsely accusing police officers of “the killing of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge and Philando Castile of Minnesota” at a funeral for police officers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESterling had raped a 14-year-old girl and was shot by police officers after reaching for a gun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Even those who dislike the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter,’ surely we should be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family,” Obama had urged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier that year, Obama had invited BLM organizers, including Brittany Packnett Cunningham and DeRay Mckesson, as well as Al Sharpton, to the White House. Mckesson had been sued that year by a Baton Rouge police officer who suffered brain trauma and lost teeth after being assaulted by a McKesson organized mob at a BLM protest for child rapist Alton Sterling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had invited a man accused of having “incited the violence” that crippled a police officer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court case of Mckesson v. Doe, in which the racist movement was represented by Covington \u0026amp; Burling attorneys, was tossed by the Supreme Court with Justice Thomas, the court's only black justice dissenting, but it's already playing a role in the attempt to impeach President Trump over false allegations that he had somehow incited the Capitol riot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats would like to continue impeaching President Trump even after he leaves office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if a president can be impeached even after he leaves office for supporting protests that turn violent, then Obama’s impeachment should be next. Obama’s long history of supporting Black Lives Matter is a matter of public record. Obama’s defenders will argue that he urged peaceful protests. So did President Trump. It hasn’t stopped Obama’s cronies from impeaching Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrat case against President Trump hinges on using the word, “fight” in his speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Obama's BLM event at the White House,  Brittany Packnett Cunningham had urged, \"we have to take the fight everywhere.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the campaign trail for Biden in Philadelphia Obama had ranted, \"We can't abandon those protesters who inspired us. We've got to channel their activism into action, we can't just imagine a better future. We've got to fight for it.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week later, massive riots broke out in Philly that brought out the Pennsylvania National Guard. A curfew was imposed across multiple districts as mobs of thousands rampaged through the streets. Thirty police officers were injured: including a female officer who was hit by a car.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how the “protesters” were fighting for that better future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe case for impeaching Barack Obama is simple enough. He backed a violent racist hate group. He delivered multiple speeches in support of its extremist cause while falsely claiming that America was racist and that the racist protests were justified. After he used the word “fight” in a speech, devastating riots followed that brought a great American city to its knees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the same case that the Democrats have made for impeaching President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf it’s good enough to impeach President Trump, it’s good enough to impeach Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama abused his office to support a racist hate group. He invited members of the racist hate group to the White House. Including those accused of inciting violence. He used his office to undermine law enforcement efforts to stop the extremist violence. And the end result has been thousands of injuries, numerous deaths, and billions of dollars in damages across America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImpeaching Obama won’t fix all of that. But it will offer justice to some of BLM’s victims.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThis article first appeared exclusively at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8879347787098523440\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/impeach-obama-for-inciting-black-lives.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8879347787098523440"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8879347787098523440"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/impeach-obama-for-inciting-black-lives.html","title":"Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6540432850121614128"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-21T22:16:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-21T22:16:01.178-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mali"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"slavery"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When Black Lives Matter Means Profiting from African Child Slavery"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It was a cold December day in Washington D.C. and Neal Katyal, Obama’s Solicitor General, was arguing with Justice Clarence Thomas, the great-grandson of a freed slave, about slavery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatyal was representing Nestle, the American subsidiary of a Swiss multinational, being sued by freed African child slaves for profiting from slavery, and Justice Thomas wasn’t having it. The two men, the consummate Democrat legal operative, who had been there for Bush v. Gore and defended ObamaCare before the Supreme Court, and the court’s only black justice descended from slaves, debated corporate liability for child slavery for a social justice company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KrGaUJaygB0\/X97CRT63nVI\/AAAAAAAASpc\/tLv8rwggvH0_QlXRBm8NByV5bHwvDwdagCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/katyal.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KrGaUJaygB0\/X97CRT63nVI\/AAAAAAAASpc\/tLv8rwggvH0_QlXRBm8NByV5bHwvDwdagCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/katyal.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENestle USA had responded to the Black Lives Matter race riots with \"mandatory unconscious bias training\" for its employees before going on to defend the company’s cocoa business from a lawsuit by freed child slaves who had been forced to work on plantations between the ages of 12 and 14, and were brutally beaten when they tried to escape.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe leadership of Nestle's UK branch had urged, \"I want people talking about race, about inequality and about why it should ever be called into question that black lives matter.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENestle’s version of black lives mattering allegedly meant African child slaves working fourteen hours a day on cocoa plantations, given \"scraps of food to eat\", \"beaten with whips and tree branches\", \"forced to sleep on the floor\", and to \"drink urine\" if they tried to run away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoca Cola, which met the BLM riots by pouring money into black nationalist groups and rolling out a, “Together We Must” slogan, joined in the defense of Nestle by filing its own brief. Coke was also recently caught \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/woke-corps-lobby-dc-keep-their-slaves-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Elobbying against \u003C\/a\u003Ea bill that would crack down on slave labor in China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter means Obama’s former lawyer lecturing a descendant of freed slaves about immunity for African child slavery and a corporation forcing its employees into humiliating critical race theory struggle sessions while benefiting from slavery, not in 1619, but now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatyal’s defense of Nestle depended, among other things, on Nazi gas chambers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENestle’s Supreme Court brief argues that, “even the firm that supplied Zyklon B gas, which the Nazis used to kill millions, was not indicted.” That's fortunate for Nestle which didn't make Zyklon B, but did pay out $14.6 million over the use of Jewish slave labor during the Holocaust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"As the legal successor of such corporations, Nestle nevertheless accepts its moral responsibility to help alleviate human suffering,\" Nestle declared in a statement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s big of Nestle, which had helped finance the Swiss Nazi Party and became an exclusive supplier of chocolate to the Wermacht. Helmut Maucher, Nestle's longtime CEO and honorary chairman, had served in the Wehrmacht. But that’s all water under the national socialist bridge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENestle went from profiting from Jewish slave labor it claimed it couldn’t do anything about to profiting from African slave labor it claims it can’t stop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Obama’s lawyer, who’s being touted for a position with Biden, is an even better story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court brief on behalf of the former slaves notes that a study “conducted by Tulane University and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor found that the total number of children engaging in cocoa production, child labor, and hazardous work in cocoagrowing areas in West Africa increased more than thirty-eight percent from 2008–2009 to 2013–2014.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose dates overlap with the glory days of Katyal’s former boss: Barack Hussein Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy would child slavery have dramatically increased under Obama? The slaves in the Nestle case were trafficked from Mali to Côte d’Ivoire, the country at the center of the cocoa business and child slavery, which underwent a Muslim-Christian civil war in Obama’s first years in office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Muslim rebels, many of them \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/lessons-ivory-coast-steven-plaut\/\"\u003Eillegal migrants\u003C\/a\u003E, rigged the 2010 election, Obama backed the Muslim north over the Christian south. The French and the UN intervened militarily to subjugate the indigenous Christians to Muslim rule. Since then, Alassane Ouattara, a descendant of Muslim rulers, dubiously won the latest presidential election by 83%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Côte d’Ivoire is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn-int.info\/article-E_AFCO_263_0249--muslim-society-and-the-ouattara-regime.htm\"\u003Eslowly being\u003C\/a\u003E Islamized and is turning into a slave nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECôte d’Ivoire’s indigenous population was concentrated in the richer forests of the south, allowing the migration of Islamic tribes to occupy the drier north. Cocoa is the black gold of the Ivory Coast with most of the economy being geared around exporting the lucrative crop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAllowing the Muslim forces to take over Côte d’Ivoire was just a brief interlude for Obama before launching the Arab Spring, and invading and removing Libya’s ruler. The resulting war allowed the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and later ISIS to gain a foothold in Libya. Tuareg Islamists, who still held a grudge over \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/slave-labor-auschwitz-mali-howard-rotberg\/\"\u003Elosing their slaves\u003C\/a\u003E, invaded Mali and brutally imposed Islamic law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tuaregs were among \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/islamic-slavery-and-racism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ethe few \u003C\/a\u003Eto still maintain a very \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/welcome-africas-alqaedastan-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epublic trade\u003C\/a\u003E in slaves. A State Department report from last year found that black slavery was still rife among the Tuaregs and that, “Malian children endure forced labor on cotton and cocoa farms in Cote d’Ivoire”. The freed slaves at the center of the Supreme Court lawsuit had originally been trafficked from Mali.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECote d’Ivoire’s boom in cocoa production was built around slave labor under brutal conditions. The beneficiaries of that slave labor are the multinationals who preach social justice, as long as it doesn’t raise the price of cocoa. It’s one thing to chant Black Lives Matter and support the racist hate group burning and looting stores, and another to actually stop profiting from black children being sold into slavery for $60 and then watching them being tortured and beaten.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the allegations in the lawsuit, Nestle dispensed “personal spending money to maintain farmers’ loyalty as exclusive suppliers” to the men running the slave plantations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this nightmare was put into place by the former boss of the lawyer shilling for Nestle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fallout from the Arab Spring had devastated Africa. The Middle East was better able to correct some of the damage from Obama’s empowerment of Islamists. Africa, poorer and more wounded, suffered far more. Obama’s backing for Islamist takeovers in Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, and Nigeria was little short of genocide, and, among its other effects, led to a boom in slavery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had done more than any other politicians to mainstream both black nationalism and black slavery. That’s only a paradox for those who don't remember Malcolm X \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/malcolm-x-must-fall-hundreds-streets-schools-named-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eadmiring \u003C\/a\u003EMuhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi who brought back slavery, before heading to Sudan to embrace its Islamists, or Stokely Carmichael shilling for brutal Muslim dictator Ahmed Toure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s black nationalists don’t admire democracy or freedom. They reserve their veneration for strongmen and thugs. And the regimes they admire oppress and kill other black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack nationalism has a way of ending in Islamist rule and the enslavement of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Black Lives Matter leaders get cash from woke corporations, those same corporations profit from slavery in Asia, where lives don’t matter, but also in Africa, where they supposedly do. While the Times serve up the 1619 Project, and the statues of anyone who ever had anything to do with a slave centuries ago are toppled, real African slavery continues today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it goes on much the same way it always had. It just no longer takes place in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica was never built on slavery, but woke corporations, from Nike to Apple, from Coca Cola to Nestle, who force their employees to chant, “Black Lives Matter”, are built on slavery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir commitments to social justice, to equity and BLM, are a distraction from the real slavery. \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6540432850121614128\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/when-black-lives-matter-means-profiting.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6540432850121614128"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6540432850121614128"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/when-black-lives-matter-means-profiting.html","title":"When Black Lives Matter Means Profiting from African Child Slavery"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KrGaUJaygB0\/X97CRT63nVI\/AAAAAAAASpc\/tLv8rwggvH0_QlXRBm8NByV5bHwvDwdagCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/katyal.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1571963727135492321"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-20T22:18:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-20T22:18:00.137-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Police Defunding, Like Communism, Can’t Fail"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“I guess you can use a snappy slogan, like ‘defund the police.’ But, you know, you lost a big audience the minute you say it,\" Barack Obama complained. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama was pretending that there had never been a serious push to get rid of the police, and after spending eight years mainstreaming black nationalism and the pro-crime politics of police defunding was trying to pretend it was just an edgy slogan calling for “criminal justice reform”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wBuM-bz4g7w\/X97C1h_JZpI\/AAAAAAAASpk\/F5tfD2Ha7_ENyCQ-hBURPRW19c-LaZuBgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1250\/black%2Blives%2Bmattere%2Bassault.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"818\" data-original-width=\"1250\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wBuM-bz4g7w\/X97C1h_JZpI\/AAAAAAAASpk\/F5tfD2Ha7_ENyCQ-hBURPRW19c-LaZuBgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/black%2Blives%2Bmattere%2Bassault.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat would have come as news to Minneapolis residents, the birthplace of the third wave of Black Lives Matter riots, where the city council had embraced police defunding, before backing off as the city tottered under an unprecedented wave of murders, assaults, and robberies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It’s not a slogan but a policy demand,\" Rep. Ilhan Omar, the antisemitic Islamist adultress accused of marrying her brother, snapped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“With all due respect, Mr. President—let’s talk about losing people,\" Rep. Cori Bush, the latest member of the socialist squad, ranted. \"It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe year isn’t over yet, but murders in Minneapolis are up 62%, twice as many people, over 500, have been shot this year as in 2019, and the city is on track for 5,000 violent crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA women’s shelter opposed police defunding proposals and described women sleeping with their \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/video\/876408\"\u003Efeet to the windows\u003C\/a\u003E out of fear that a stray bullet will strike them in the head.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I have relived that night many times, hearing the sounds of the bullets hitting my radiator and drywall spraying everywhere,” a South Minneapolis resident told councilmembers at a hearing, and called police defunding a, “sociology experiment that obviously doesn’t work.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can say the same thing about virtually any left policy from soda taxes to Communism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECouncilman Jeremiah Bey Ellison, the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, argued that police defunding wasn’t working because it had never been tried. His father had previously suggested that police shouldn’t respond to rape calls. But police defunding has indeed never been properly tried because the Minneapolis City Council failed to formulate any kind of plan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEllison blamed the huge surge in crime, including a 537% increase in carjackings in the birthplace of police defunding, on “conventional wisdom” and the “century-long failure to create a public safety system that is not police-only.” The public safety system isn’t ‘police only’. It already includes a huge component of social services. The reason we have the police is that the billions that are already thrown at social services rarely stop crime. Billions more won’t fix it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe obvious problem with police defunding or abolition is that its proponents have no plan for dealing with crime beyond telling victims to suck it up and offering the perps social services.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal police defunding calls for getting rid of the police, prosecutors, and prisons, before replacing them with therapy sessions for criminals under the name ‘restorative justice’. When the godmother of police defunding tried it out with a Black Lives Matter rapist, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/godmother-police-defunding-tried-restorative-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehe kept on raping\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen CNN’s Wolf Blitzer \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2006\/08\/sitroom.01.html\"\u003Easked\u003C\/a\u003E Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender who would respond to an active shooter, after repeatedly talking about replacing the police, she and her colleague responded that it would be the job of the police. There’s still no better answer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice defunders insist that crime is caused by an unjust society and will go away when enough money is invested into the welfare state, affirmative action, and critical race theory training. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMinneapolis Democrats can’t answer who would deal with an active shooter because their ideology tells them that active shooters won’t exist once they finish reforming society. This is a familiar enough argument from leftists explaining how Communism was going to function. Those same theoreticians would then go on to explain that real Communism had never been tried.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union, Castro’s Cuba, and Maoist China, were never true Communism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe advocates of police defunding will go on holding up their imaginary utopia as an ideal while claiming that like Communism, it never failed because it had never been properly implemented. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if some city is insane enough to actually abolish the police and prisons, and put the entire budget into social services, it still won’t be enough because the entire system will still be centering whiteness. Get rid of all the white people and there’ll be internalized whiteness. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd defunding advocates, like Omar, Tlaib, and Bush, will go on arguing that it was never tried.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no city will go that far. There are police union contracts and chambers of commerce to contend with. Instead police budgets will be cut leading to limited enforcement and crime spikes. That’s already underway in Minneapolis and in cities across the country. The police will keep their heads down until, as in Minneapolis, public outrage leads politicians to ask for their help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has been living on this policy seesaw for seventy years, as cities switched between permissive pro-crime policies to crackdowns on criminals without learning from the past. Once crime is under control, the pro-crime arguments about brutal police and the cost of mass incarceration start sounding reasonable to people who forgot what living with crime is like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the idea that crime springs from an unjust society, instead of a tainted mind, will never die.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice defunding shows why a fundamentally stupid idea that is at the root of our social problems won’t go away because, like most utopian nonsense, it can’t be disproven. Or at least it can’t be disproven to the satisfaction of the sorts of lefties who look at millions dead in Russia and China, or a double-digit rise in homicide rates in major American cities, and shrug.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt hasn’t really been tried. Not properly. This time it’ll work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice is one of those areas where there’s a fundamental philosophical difference about the nature of humanity that translates into completely incompatible policies. The fundamental question here is the familiar one of free will. Are criminals free agents or victims?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsking Minneapolis Democrats who supported police defunding what they plan to do about an active shooter is a meaningless question within their ideological frame of reference because it presupposes that the active shooter has free will and can be stopped by direct intervention. In their holistic view of society, violence causes violence, and the active shooter only exists because we have armed police, fight wars, and let little boys play ‘cops and robbers’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s much the same answer you get when asking a leftist why there’s alcoholism, wars, or hurricanes. The messianic response in all cases is that these are problems caused by society that will go away when lefties are given enough power to fundamentally transform society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou don’t give political power to people who think that way or ask them to solve any problems. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbolishing the police, like abolishing rent, student loans, free speech, religion, and private property, all ideas currently being advocated by the American Left, is just another way of saying that all of our problems are caused by society and will go away when our society goes away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice defunding, like Soviet collective farms or socialized medicine, is only the latest lunatic leftist proposal to run aground on the shores of reality while being defended as untested. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe police can never be defunded. They must exist, if only to arrest people who erase Black Lives Matter graffiti or fill in ponds on their own property, and their existence keeps police defunding alive as an enlightened ideal that has never been truly implemented. Like abolishing private property, its absurd impossibility makes it compelling, and keeps the nightmare alive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery now and then another attempt will be made to defund the police, leading to hundreds and thousands of deaths, and more assaults, robberies, and rapes than even the FBI can count. Like the Soviet Union or the Minneapolis City Council, the whole thing will fall apart on its own, but its memory will linger as an inspiration to the next bunch of radicals who will try it again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the bodies of the people sacrificed to that experiment will linger, forgotten, in cemeteries.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1571963727135492321\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/police-defunding-like-communism-cant.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1571963727135492321"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1571963727135492321"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/police-defunding-like-communism-cant.html","title":"Police Defunding, Like Communism, Can’t Fail"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wBuM-bz4g7w\/X97C1h_JZpI\/AAAAAAAASpk\/F5tfD2Ha7_ENyCQ-hBURPRW19c-LaZuBgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/black%2Blives%2Bmattere%2Bassault.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});