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“Imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” That’s how George Orwell in 1984 described living in a totalitarian regime. Up until recently, I thought that meant that totalitarian states always hung the threat of violence over their citizens’ heads. But now that totalitarianism is coming to the United States, I see that it involves much more than that. There are all sorts of ways to apply a boot to a face.
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gravenimage says
The Left: Totalitarianism Without a Führer
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Grimly true–Antifa, despite its name, is Fascist. There are many others like them.
The graffiti at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland included “Kill All Judges!”.
mortimer says
Someone in Portland and in Seattle saw a poster with a big hand showing the OK gesture (interpreted by Leftards as white supremacy). However, the poster was promoting the local NBA basketball team!
Nonetheless, Antifa decided the two courthouses should be burned down.
gravenimage says
Yes–the idea that the “OK” sign means “white supremacy” is ridiculous.
Rioters also set fire to to the Alameda County Courthouse here in Oakland. Some of the graffiti read, “Kill All Judges”.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-26/oakland-protesters-set-fire-to-courthouse-smash-windows
Savages.
william carr says
I would support ‘killing’ some of them as they are not wise people judging matters impartially but letting personal and political bias. It is a great weakness of the US system that they are elected and not civil servants as in most countries, so like politicians they always have their eyes fixed on getting re elected
gravenimage says
William, the idea that these rioters were speaking philosophically, and were referring to the lack of wisdom on the part of some judges is mistaken. This was likely a codicil to destroying police departments for trying to maintain law and order–and this call for their murder should be taken *quite literally*.
As for judges, some are elected–but most in the criminal courts are not.
paul says
I’m not sure whether it was Churchill or George Orwell who said this, but ‘when Fascism returns it will be under the guise of anti-Fascism’.
gravenimage says
It is a great quote, Paul, whatever its proper attribution.
Just Venting says
Don’t worry, after the leftists like Antifa and their cohorts feel they are in charge and secure enough, the purges will start. As in Red China under Mao, the USSR under Stalin, Cuba under Castro, Italy under Il Duce, and Germany with Der Fuhrer, someone will quickly decide it is time to consolidate power and remove the possible contenders. The Antifa losers will quickly find out they are no longer needed as they have no skills other than to promote chaos.
There is a book out there called “Days of Rage” (Brian Burrough, Penquin Press, 2015) about the late 60’s to early 80’s radicals in the US. With this bunch, they started the purge amongst themselves to ensure “ideological purity” when the masses did not rush out to join them in robbing banks, blowing things up, and randomly killing perceived enemies (like the cops).
If enough people refuse to support and join them, stand up to them, and police start rounding the ringleaders up, I suspect these current miscreants will start purging themselves as well and blame a lack of pure ideology for their failure.
The real key will be how the 2020 elections turn out and if they can be kept as honest as possible. The people elected to provide leadership that instead joined or supported these anarchists need to be booted out of office. If that does not happen, and more of the same are elected, it will be a real mess, a la the French Revolution.
mortimer says
The US is awash with university professors who are not defending American individualism from totalitarian collectivism.
What we are seeing in the Dem party is the Leftist replacement of CRITICAL thought with totalitarian AUTHORITARIAN thought.
Mo says
We had such a university professor in Mike Adams. He was fighting this fight for years. These monsters bullied and tormented him into suicide.
I don’t think I will ever get over it. If they can break him, they can break us all.
The news of his death was just breaking and they were already rejoicing. Animals.
James Lincoln says
To your point, Mo:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-professor-slave-state-coronavirus-lockdown-george-floyd-protest-mike-adams-wilmington
Grace says
Don’t get mad; get even.
John says
Spare the rod spoil the child.
OLD GUY says
These poor imbeciles don’t know what they are creating. They have been indoctrinated in our liberal false teaching schools and universities to think that communism, socialism and totalitarianism will solve all their problems and they won’t have to make any decisions as the government will make them for the them.
They are willing to give up their freedom so that they don’t have to make individual decisions and take responsibility for them selves.
Give them all a TROPHY so their feelings don’t get hurt.
Walter Sieruk says
The extreme left is not only irrational but hateful vicious and murderously violent as well as very fake.
For example, BLM is not a genuine or real civil rights organization but instead it’s an vicious,violent malicious dangerous an deadly terrorist entity.
As seen by that murderous action of the BLM hooligans of shooting a young White woman dead for only telling them the truth that “All lives matter.” exposes many evil things about that vicious hate group.
This exposes the BLM thugs are so malicious and irrational that they can’t be reason with. In other words they are not rational and don’t understand reason.
This also reveals that they are wicked in the true sense of being totally evil . They have proven that by the vicious murderous violence.
This poor young woman was so naive as to try to reason with those who aren’t rational but only vicious brutal cruel and murderous.
This alone exposes that BLM is not a real political action movement but an extremely violent terrorist/ criminal, murdering entity.
The BLM hooligans by celebrating the malicious murder of this young person by one of their thugs have expose that they and their group are not a genuine political organization but spiteful, hateful malice ,wicked thugs.
Those BLM supporters who celebrate the murder of this innocent young woman shall ,in time, be punished for their hate and malice
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As the Bible informs in reader in Proverbs 17:5. “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
Isaac Marshall says
Excellent article.