“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Anarchists, looters and arsonists engage in heinous acts of wanton violence while good people stand by and watch from the sidelines. Democrat office holders, in acts of appeasement to the violent mob, tell their police forces to stand down in the face of racial-driven violence, thereby emboldening the anarchists to increase their violence. Businesses are burned, people are injured or killed and foul graffiti adorns the walls and streets of the city. In the chaos that ensues, everyone tends to lose sight of why the violence is occurring in the first place. Violence just becomes violence for violence’s sake, without reason or logic.
The hard fact is, that if just one anarchist is shot by law enforcement, in front of all the other anarchists, they would scatter like flies in all directions and the violence would stop. If anarchists, looters and arsonists were shot in big-city riots across the country, violence would immediately stop all over America.
If there is no price to pay, the anarchist gets off scot-free. This is a truism for all criminal behavior, including those that cross our borders illegally. That is why we have laws in the first place so that criminals will pay a price for their bad acts against society. But if the law only applies to the good, law-abiding people of America, then there is no law.
Now everyone knows this fact instinctively. Why do we constantly ignore reason, logic and common sense? The only reason that makes sense is the politics of power. Politics corrupts all rational actions and intelligent decisions by government, whether it is an act of a politician or a bureaucrat. Virtually every act of government is an act of politics for the purpose of obtaining and keeping political power. All political parties are guilty of using irrational politics to further their goal of wielding power over the masses. Examples of this in our every day lives abound.
The Democrat mayors of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and all other big cities run by Democrats, see the riots as enhancing their chances of increasing their power at all levels of government, including the presidency. The bad economy, large unemployment, virus deaths and the constant violent upheaval every night on the news surely would seem to work against the incumbent president. Or does it? If lawlessness is allowed to persist and good people become enraged because no one is stopping it, could it backfire on the Democrats?
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Nevertheless, the Democrats are willing to let people be killed and businesses burn so that they can hold the seats of power and tell everyone else how to live. They abhor the Constitution as it limits their power to control the people with Climate Change, Green New Deals, Medicare For all, un-fund the police, give amnesty and all kinds of free stuff to illegal aliens, repeal the Electoral College and free college tuition for everyone.
If the electoral power was not concentrated in big cities and was spread out more evenly across the country, Democrats would not be able to hold the rest of the country hostage by allowing, aiding and abetting riots, looting and arson for the trumped up charge of systemic racism or white privilege. Big cities may very well be the downfall of a free America, or lead to civil war.
We’ve been down this road before in previous articles but sometimes repetition increases the chances of getting the message across.
The behavior of individuals living tightly in big cities produces its own share of problems. High crime rates and noise, air and water pollution are just a few of the consequences. Big cities require large police forces to enforce laws and civility but big cities without adequate police protection see their crime rates explode, as is happening now due to Democrats appeasing the mob and calling for a reduction in police presence, as if that will somehow reduce racism and riots.
Big cities dump their concentrated pollution on the environment and then expect everyone else to comply with environmental protection, except them selves.
Big cities are also dangerous places to be in times of war and natural disasters.
Earthquakes, fires, floods and rapidly spreading diseases find ready victims in big cities that can produce large losses of life. Most of the deaths occurring from the Black Plague, during the era of the Dark Ages, occurred in the cities where the concentrated garbage and human waste attracted the rats that carried the fleas that carried the disease.
During war, opposing enemies don’t bomb the countryside, they bomb big cities where the manufacturing plants build the machines and weapons of war and where large populations of men, women and children can be killed to bring the enemy to its knees. Need we mention the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the firebombing of Dresden, Germany?
But the other consequence of high-dense living is the steady lowering of the bar of civility, respect and trust. Human behavior changes under the conditions of living closer together. It does so because of a basic human fact. No matter what the government, socialists, or the environmentalists will tell you, people like and need “their” space and the space does not come in a 1,000 sq. ft. apartment in a 25-story building, surrounded by concrete on all sides, in a big city.
Suburbs became a partial answer to the human need for space and escaping the problems of big cities. But then the suburbs began to increase in density as governments got into the act of “planning” where we live and work. The suburbs began to infill.
History has shown us that people don’t behave well when crammed together in big cities. Big cities have given us the “Blue” states. Big cities are bastions of socialism and government control. Big cities, with their majorities, control the legislative process and give us legislators that support socialism, more laws and environmental extremism. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez come to mind.
The people who inhabit big cities are more apt to believe whatever the government tells them and act like mindless lemmings. The current propaganda and mass hysteria of man-caused global warming (Climate Change) is a prime example and allows Al Gore to spew his Climate Change insanity to the naive “choir”. Yes, big cities are large markets of consumers and bring us commerce that helps to fund the country. But we wonder if the price is worth it?
There is now a determined social justice and environmental protection agenda by American policy makers to cram more people into large cities. Over-educated, government-paid planners spend all of their time in drafting acts, laws, rules, restrictions, regulations and ordinances to direct the movement of populations ever tighter into big cities. Planners are doing their best to do away with the single-family home with a large yard where the kids can play.
Draconian environmental protection laws are purposely designed to drive more people out of the rural areas and force them into big cities. The rural areas are to be protected at all costs, without regard to constitutional protections or the rights of rural landowners, the quintessential American dream.
This purposeful design was first created in a United Nations policy paper entitled, Agenda 21. It was then codified into American law by presidential executive orders, without a treaty being ratified. This socialist policy now permeates every level of American government and is taught in our K-12 public schools and our very liberal colleges.
Government sanctifies this policy with soft sounding names like “Social Equity”, “Smart Growth”, “Sustainable Development”, “Endangered Species”, “Conservation”, “Biospheres”, “Wildlife Corridors” and “Wilderness Protection”. One of the motives for all of this propaganda is to drive more people into big cities, get them out of their cars and force them to take mass transit. Government can more easily control people in big cities.
As a direct result of this forced rural-to-urban migration policy, the bar of civility gets lower and lower as big-city populations increase. Big government, mostly Democrats, love big cities, as they feed off of the occupants’ dependence on government and big-city voters continue to re-elect the handout providers. Big government doesn’t give one whit about civility. If the population gets more uncivil, government just adds more police to bring the people into compliance and increases taxes to pay for it all, that is of course if Black Lives Matter doesn’t get Democrats to decrease police forces under the insane idea of “de-fund the police.”
We’ll never get rid of big cities but like too many rats in a cage, the populations of big cities will get less and less civil as their densities increase and will become more and more dependent on government for their survival. As a result, socialism is inevitable. (See: “Demographics Will Eventually Destroy Our Founding Father’s Republic”)
Big cities produced big government and government gets bigger and more powerful every day. In the end civility, respect, trust, honor, integrity, honesty and freedom lose.
Antifa, Portland
Big cities give Democrats big power. Uncontrolled violence in big cities by anarchists is just another way for Democrats to increase their political power. If more of the anarchists were shot by law enforcement while in the act of rioting, looting, or arson, there would be a lot less violence in our big cities and a lot less power for Democrats.
In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “violence might bring momentary results for racial justice, but it never brings lasting peace.” (See: “So Black Violence Is Supposed To Heal White Racism?”
It seems the only logical conclusion then is to confront violence with violence in the hopes of eventually bringing lasting peace, just as we did in two world wars. It makes no difference if the violence is domestic or international. All bullies must be taken down one way or another, either by peaceful means, or by violence.
Now there may be another way to confront the anarchists, with a show of force. The good people of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho came out in full force carrying guns when they heard that ANTIFA was on their way to protest in Coeur d’Alene. When ANTIFA showed up, heavily armed civilians escorted them out of town. Not a shot was fired. The PEOPLE spoke! (See: “Armed Patriots Patrol Coeur d’Alene”)
August 4, 2020
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly column, “In Defense of Rural America“, is the President of the The National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO), a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State and dedicated to restoring, maintaining and defending property rights for urban and rural landowners. Mr. Ewart can be reached for comment at info@narlo.org.
Mr. Ewart has been a continuing contributor to the Kettle Moraine family of publications since May of 2007.
On April 9th 2012, the problem was in full bloom then, and despite moves by various state legislatures to stop it, since those days, it has persisted, since it is driven by people who never give up. They are like maggots that just keep eating away at the body of the host until every last morsel, everything of worth is devoured. And so, stopping their advancing tyranny cannot be manged through normal channels as the Good Mr Ewart suggests.
He is addressing the low-hanging foot-soldiers in the streets, but there are many Communists in all ranks of government at all levels today, and they act as though they are untouchable, while they make “rules” and pass “law” that absolutely contravenes and abrogates the moral “law” of the Supreme Law of the Land, the United States Constitution.
When they hold unjust, bad “law” before the people that grants privilege to those withing their ranks over others in society, and the opposition party cannot or will not properly act to stop such illiberal, unconstitutional “legislation” and the Courts are complicit, a free people, who wish to remain free, have little to no choice but to Water the Tree of Liberty with the Blood of Tyrants.
I wrote the following piece in April 2012:
Contrary to assertions by the Obama administration, the Progressive Democrats and the liberal “mainstream media”, i.e. ‘The Tennessean’, President Obama’s adoption of UN Agenda 21 through his June 9, 2011 Executive Order 13575 is far from innocent or innocuous, especially when combined with his March 16, 2012 National Defense Preparedness Resources (NDPR) Order. Order 13575 controls all of rural America through the newly created White House Rural Council, while the NDPR essentially gives the President complete control over the nation’s entire infrastructure, as well as the power to declare martial law during peacetime; both orders integrate and include every U.S. department from the EPA to the Department of Defense, and as such, these three entities represent the greatest threat to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. sovereignty and individual freedom, in the history of our nation, especially in light of Obama’s desire to “fundamentally transform” America!
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is an Agenda 21 agency, and it has been inconspicuously allowed entry into many U.S. communities prior to Obama’s order largely due to a vagueness of language that would clutter and confuse any normal person’s thought process; however, some communities like Irving, Texas now recognize the dark and nefarious intent behind ICLEI and have nullified ICLEI based codes. By infiltrating the smallest levels of local government, the ICLEI advances a globalist initiative for a post-industrial America/world that creates requirements for city planning and local laws. These ICLEI initiatives also essentially erase personal property rights, and they even steal land from rightful owners under new guidelines for “sustainable rural communities”, which are based on environmental impact.
“Sustainability” has replaced Cap and Trade and global warming Marxofascist schemes designed to redistribute the wealth under the guise of “clean air and water” and “environmentalism”, however, Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism, as it professes a desire to end poverty, change consumption patterns and promote health. Agenda 21 also seeks to reduce private property ownership, private car ownership, single family homes and privately owned farms, as it squeezes people into small livable areas and implements population control.
Already numerous property owners in rural and urban areas of the nation, especially California, have been issued codes violations citations for “living on land illegally” by Nuisance Abatement Teams following newly created codes that comply with Agenda 21. In some instances, even when the private owners were unaware that these ridiculous codes had been adopted, they still effectively lost their property to the county without compensation. Similarly, the federal government has imposed this same plan in order to protect endangered species and “wetlands” and to implement numerous other dubious land-use control policies that have no constitutional basis. This is “Amortization of Non-Conforming Uses” under sustainable development.
The Habitat Agenda, a subsection of Agenda 21, limits the size of the world population, sets parenting regulations described in the 1989 UN Convention of the Child, and it controls housing, communications and religious expression. It greatly resembles the old USSR constitution, and while many specifics were discussed at previous UN conferences, this agenda delivers only greater restrictions on individuals and a progressive plan for global governance.
Truth and facts matter little to Pres. Obama and the Progressive Democrats, and we certainly know that they prefer stories and “scientific” arguments that evoke the “correct” response, such as the falsified evidence from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. None of the IPCC studies contained clear evidence that climate change can be attributed to increases in green-house gases or man-made causes. Now without “proof” of a human impact on global warming, the Leftists, globalists and Obama lose their strongest argument for world governance.
Any activity described as “sustainable” should be recognized as a “government controlled activity”. The first paragraph of Obama’s Order 13575 reads: “…Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competiveness…The Federal Government has an important role to play in order to expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands”.
Obama’s 13575 references “sustainable rural communities” as it employs Agenda 21 language verbatim and its blueprint for sustainable development. Many authors of Agenda 21 have admitted that regulation would severely limit water, electricity and transportation and even deny us access to our most treasured wilderness areas, and it would basically monitor all lands and people. Within Order 13575, an admission exists of government intent to seize greater power over food, fiber and energy…items that are key to human existence.
The National Defense Preparedness Resources Order basically redefines “national defense” and completes the mission initiated by 13575. The NDPR empowers the Secretaries of Energy, Defense, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Transportation and Agriculture to confiscate food, water resources, all forms of energy, all forms of civil transportation ( any vehicle, plane, boat), livestock, farm equipment, and any other materials from wherever they are available, including construction materials. Specifically, the government is allowed to allocate facilities, services and materials as it deems necessary or appropriate, and the bureaucrats decide what necessary or appropriate means.
The NDPR in part states: (Sect. 301 title 3 (b) The Secretary of each agency… shall …issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures… to promote the national defense, under both emergency and non-emergency conditions. In essence, this is giving the President and his cabinet the power to declare martial law even during peacetime!
It is now evident that State Rep. Rick Womick’s assertions regarding Agenda 21 are fact. The proposed legislation to nullify any Agenda 21 codes within Tennessee was both necessary and proper; next, our legislators must focus on neutralizing the extensive and overreaching power contained in Obama’s recent Executive Orders, since America cannot trust Obama with any power.
Obama’s vision for the “fundamental transformation” of America has ushered in a nastier regime of government regulation and oppression, as his administration moves forward with anti-American, anti-freedom UN agendas and attempts to persuade the American people to accept unthinkable limits on consumption, family size, transportation and land use by scaring them into compliance through environmental risk “facts”, in order to redistribute the world’s resources and create “global equality”/communism; the NDPR authorizes cabinet heads to offer loan guarantees for whatever they need or, in a crisis, take whatever they need and redistribute it as they see fit, which serves the politically connected through corruption of heretofore unseen proportions. From Obamacare’s individual mandate and a corrupt Stimulus (i.e. Solyndra) to an energy policy designed to crush fossil fuels, Obama’s vision is morally and economically bankrupt with an inherent core of destruction that reduces America and the world to the lowest common denominator…poverty for all but the elite ruling class!
“The most striking success of a revolution will always have been achieved when the new philosophy of life as far as possible has been taught to all men, and if necessary, later forced upon them.” -‘Mein Kampf’/ Adolph Hitler________________________________
~ Justin O Smith