Mass civil unrest is a cumbersome weapon for societal change. Like a giant caveman club made of heavy oak, you can barely swing it, and you might destroy an enemy with it, but you might also unwittingly destroy innocent people at the same time. Once the club is in motion adjusting its direction or momentum becomes impossible.
I prefer a scalpel approach. Find the cancer and cut it out directly, rather than bashing at the whole body just to get at the cancer.
Another problem with protests and riots is that they often have no discernible goals, or they lose track of their goals almost immediately. When the initial protests started, they targeted the police precinct in Minneapolis which was home to the officers that killed George Floyd. In my view, this was perfectly acceptable. At this stage, a majority of Americans were on their side. Many conservatives and law enforcement officers even came out in support of these measures and admonished the actions that violated common police procedures and led to unnecessary death.
But now, the situation has turned into something far beyond the killing of George Floyd. It has become a vehicle for agendas and not surprisingly the establishment benefits most; the very establishment the protesters think they are fighting against.
The riots have been co-opted. Where whites and blacks, conservatives and liberals alike were mostly in agreement, now there are attempts at division. Why is the death of Floyd being presented as a race issue in the first place? Why is it not being presented as a psychopath issue?
There are psychopaths in every race in equal numbers, and this should be people's focus. In other words, psychopaths must be removed from society, whether they be police, politicians, business leaders or even "caretakers." How about some examples...
In Mesa, Arizona, in 2017, a white man named
Daniel Shaver was murdered by officer Phillip Brailsford after an anonymous tip told police he had a rifle in his hotel room. Though it is not illegal to own a rifle in Arizona... and it's certainly not illegal to bring one into a hotel, a team of officers was sent armed with AR-15s to approach and arrest Shaver. Brailsford ordered the frightened Shaver to crawl across the floor instead of asking him to lay on the ground with his hands and feet spread as is normal police procedure. The man, sobbing in terror, reached to pull up his shorts which were falling off and was riddled with bullets by Brailsford.
Watching the video, it is clear that Brailsford created a situation in which Shaver could easily "make a mistake" and thereby create an excuse for the officer to kill him in cold blood. As it turned out, the rifle Shaver had in his room was a BB gun. A jury later acquitted Brailsford of any wrongdoing. On the same day in North Carolina, an officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of an unarmed motorist. The difference? The motorist in South Carolina was black.
The point is psychopathic cops kill people regardless of their skin color. White people are at risk as much as black people. But at least when a black person is wrongly killed, the public might take serious notice. There were no nationwide protests or riots for Daniel Shaver. The establishment works in favor of psychopaths, not white people. In fact,
Phillip Brailsford was fired and then rehired for a short time by the Mesa Police so that he could still apply for his pension.
What about psychopaths that aren't white cops? Oh, there are plenty of them, too. How about
Mohamed Noor, a black Minneapolis police officer that killed an unarmed white woman, Justine Ruszczyk, in 2017 while responding to her 911 call? Leftist activists including those at the NAACP at the time claimed that Noor was being "unfairly targeted" because he was black. There were no protests or riots for Justine Ruszczyk. Though, luckily, Mohamed Noor did go to jail for his crime.
And if we are going to continue following the thread of violence and psychopathy versus race, I can't leave out the black nurse in Detroit that
filmed himself torturing elderly patients by beating them repeatedly in their beds, completely unable to defend themselves. The man has been arrested, but again, no riots yet over this horror show.
There are evil people of every race and ethnicity in this world that do terrible things, however, the worst people are those that exploit the tensions that these evil people create in order to turn crisis into opportunity. The reason there are riots happening globally now in the wake of the death of George Floyd is because people are angry, but also, people are malleable and easy to manipulate when they are angry.
The country has just partially "reopened" from the pandemic lockdowns, and more lockdowns likely before the year is out. Over 40 million people lost their jobs during the economic shutdown and the government checks are not going to last much longer. Only 13 percent to 18 percent of small businesses that requested aid actually received money from the small business bailout, and most of those that did not get money are facing closure. Government restrictions have been accelerating, and people are already on edge. Riots were inevitable. But with the death of George Floyd, the riots can be manipulated.
Now, the rage of the masses can be directed on false issues of race and shallow left/right politics instead of being directed at corrupt government and the elites that created the economic mess we now see before us. The protests over George Floyd probably started out with pure intentions, and now they have been poisoned by outsiders seeking to create useful chaos.
Provocateurs have infiltrated the protests and are attempting to trigger indiscriminate violence. Pre-staged weapons such as
piles of bricks, bottles and other items have been appearing magically in protest zones. Property is being destroyed by people not connected to the main protest groups. Odd occurrences are popping up everywhere.
Here is where this is all headed...
As I predicted just after the election of Donald Trump, it appears the goal of the establishment is to produce extreme division among the American public and then exploit the hard-left as a weapon to frighten conservatives into supporting martial law. In an article from November 2016 I stated:
With Trump and conservatives taking near-total power after the Left had assumed, they would never lose again, their reaction has been to transform. They are stepping away from the normal activities and mindset of cultural Marxism and evolving into full-blown communists. Instead of admitting that their ideology is a failure in every respect, they are doubling down.
When this evolution is complete, the Left WILL resort to direct violent action on a larger scale, and they will do so with a clear conscience because, in their minds, they are fighting fascism. Ironically, it will be this behavior by crazy leftists that may actually push conservatives toward a fascist model. Conservatives might decide to fight crazy with more crazy.
Is it just a coincidence that conservatives were the most opposed to medical martial law only a week ago in the face of the pandemic, and now they are considering the merits of martial law in the face of the leftist-influenced riots? And who actually benefits from this? The elitist establishment that's been calling for martial law measures from the very beginning.
If they can trick conservatives into suddenly supporting the lockdowns, curfews and a National Guard/military presence to stop the protests, then they will have defeated us without firing a shot. We will have defeated ourselves.
The bottom line? More government power is
never the solution to any problem. Totalitarianism is never the answer. The solution, in this case, is to prosecute the police involved in the murder of George Floyd to the fullest extent of the law, point out that this is a problem of abuse of power and psychopathy, not a problem of race, and to stop outside interests from busing in provocateurs to trigger riots.
If this current trend continues, it would not surprise me at all if George Floyd becomes a forgotten footnote in the riots that were started in his name. If certain elites get their way, people will continue to riot without even knowing why, and those riots will never be aimed at the people who actually deserve it.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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