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Crazy how fast the left & Antifa went from “punch Nazis” to “punch gay Vietnamese-American journalists.”

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) June 29, 2019

Let's Get Ready To Rumble

Looks like Portland PD is going to have a busy day:

Dueling demonstrators are set to assemble Saturday in Portland, signaling the city’s first potential clash of the summer between right- and left-wing factions.

Online postings indicate two right-wing demonstrations are scheduled for Saturday.

One involves the Proud Boys, a fraternal organization known for street fighting, and another organized by conservative activist Haley Adams and the “HimToo Movement.” Counterprotesters are planning to gather in opposition.

The counterprotesters include local antifa who claim that Proud Boys are coming to "attack" Portland and therefore it's necessary to don their black garb and masks and take to the streets to defend it from the white nationalists and fascists. The truth of the matter though, is Proud Boys is neither white nationalist nor fascist, and antifa is not anti-fascist, but pro-communist and anti-First Amendment.

Proud Boys is a fraternal organization that was founded in 2016. Contrary to what you have probably heard, it is not alt-right, far-right, or neo-fascist. It is unabashedly pro-Western Civilization and pro-Trump. This makes them the mortal enemy of the hard-left Social Justice Warriors who are the real extremists in this play. Their goal is the destruction of Western Civilization and replacing the individualism that is at its core with a totalitarian collectivism along the lines of the old Soviet Union, only this time they will get it right.(eyeroll)

The one thing Proud Boys and antifa do have in common is they both like to fight. And by fight I mean brawl in the streets. I'm opposed to political violence and think those who seek it are foolish, but there's a natural symmetry at work here. The rise of violent and anti-First Amendment groups on the left such as antifa and By Any Means Necessary were inevitably going to give rise to groups willing to dish out their own violence on the right. Some of those groups are white nationalist and neo-Nazis, but Proud Boys explicitly rejects them. Anyone who claims they don't is shining you on. 50-some years ago Proud Boys would have been labelled Kennedy Democrats.

While I oppose political violence, I support the First Amendment rights of Proud Boys to assemble and speak. In fact, I support everyone's First Amendment rights, even those of racists, Nazis, and Communists, because the proper counter to ugly speech is more speech, not censorship. And certainly not violence.

Plenty of counterprotesters will come armed with more speech, which is fine. Antifa will come ready and willing to brawl. Here's hoping the Portland PD can keep them at bay.

Update: The antifa thugs didn't even wait for Proud Boys to show up. The video below shows them assaulting independent journalist Andy Ngo today. Ngo has honestly and fearlessly reported on antifa thuggery and the dishonesty of the Portland Left. They had threatened violence against him and today they delivered. Don't ever let someone tell antifa are the good guys. They are shitstains.

 

Video footage of a members of a large Antifa mob taking turns beating the shit out of @MrAndyNgo and throwing milkshakes at him. pic.twitter.com/Fhrvis7MEk

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 29, 2019

Decision 2020

Watching two nights of Democratic Party presidential debates greatly helped me determine who I'm going to vote for November 2020:

Donald J. Trump.

Happy Birthday, US Army

Happy 244th Birthday to the US Army. 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our GREAT @USArmy. America loves you! #ArmyBday pic.twitter.com/MyypBVGMoW

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2019

Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm...Mohamed Noor Edition

So former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, convicted on two counts last month in the killing of Justine Damond, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison today. But this struck me as odd:

[The judge] sentenced Noor for the murder conviction, leaving the lower count unaddressed. 

Previous stories had noted that Noor faced 11-15 years on the murder conviction and 4 years on the manslaughter. Why would the judge leave the manslaughter conviction unaddressed? Don't judges, if they don't want to pile on additional time, typically sentence a defendant for the conviction but make it concurrent with the other sentence(s)? It seems odd that it would simply be "unaddressed."

I mention this because a number of prominent Twin Cities lawyers have been quoted over the last month saying that Noor has a good chance of getting the murder conviction overturned on appeal. And now the judge has sentenced him only on that charge. The judge has not seemed sympathetic to Noor through this whole process, but today's actions make me go...hmmmmm.