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"Americans must become confident again that their government will enforce the law, without fear or favor." Wait a minute. The public isn't confident BECAUSE the government has demonstrated that it won't enforce the law against Leftist rioters. You can't just conjure up public confidence when the government, at all levels - federal, state, and local - has shown that it will not do so. The first step is for government to grow a pair and stop giving the Left a free pass. There have been violent riots in D.C. at both the White House and the DNC's headquarters. I could count the number of arrests on the fingers of one hand. At the DNC, six cops were injured and there was one arrest. Yet, arrests are still being made of people who walked through the Capital, through open doors, nearly three years ago. No wonder people don't, and shouldn't, have confidence in the equal application of law.

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The government is the left.

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Nov 20, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Keep exposing the truth. Watch "The Fall of Minneapolis" to see what was not allowed to be seen.

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THE FALL of MINNEAPOLIS

https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/

You will be astounded, dismayed, deeply frustrated and saddened by the information, complete with documented evidence and actual video cam footage, to back up the claims of this Documentary, Produced by Liz Collin, Written and Directed by Dr. JC Chaix.

You can't help but cheer for this righteous exposure as you cry over the senseless suffering caused by all the immoral and unlawful deceptions played upon the American public.

My heart was broken 💔 as I watched footage of what our Law Enforcement Officers were so UNJUSTLY put through to push an EVIL narrative filled with out-right lies, cover-ups and disgraceful inhumanity to the very people who have dedicated their lives to serve for the good of our Communities, States and Nation. Our Police Officers were FAILED by the cowardice of the City Government of Minneapolis (as well as other Administrations failing Officers across our Nation).

There is no doubt of the deeply challenging and difficult situations in which cities found themselves with the unruly rioting mobs. The liberal extremists voted in to run their City and State Governments carry a major burden of fault for these injustices.

Where has the desire to have Leaders of Integrity gone? More times than not, we reap what we sow.

Our Law Enforcement across our country are owed a BIG APOLOGY for the hatred, unkind actions and deep disrespect they were unjustly shown. Shame on those who participated.

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Dunno if I’ll invest that much of my time considering where the producers are located on the truth in media continuum:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fake-news/

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"Federal law enforcement should intervene." 'Social Justice' 'Protests' should be called by their right name.....mostly orgies of spoilt-brat self indulgence with looting added benefits. The judiciary should be above the partisan political fray. Police should not have taken the knee to the BLM racket. SO MANY SHOULDS. But the biggest problem is the millions of Americans who SHOULD never have been taken in by all this Social Justice 'activism' nonsense in the first place. Before there can be any serious disruption of these networks, a braver kind of politician is sooner or later going to have to confront these millions of (mostly) Democrat-voting electors with some hard truths about how full of s*** they are.

(You of course are doing some great work on this score.)

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Law enforcement has to enforce the law against these thugs vigorously on all levels not just the federal level

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Yeah wtaf is going on with law enforcement? They seem to be repeatedly siding with pro Hamas, Antifa, BLM and Trans Activist demonstrators. In Massachusetts they're going into public schools to warn students about hate speech (like "misgendering"?) which is a chilling message for our First Ammendment rights. Easy to guess their next step of disarming citizens if patriots aren't vigilant.

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This is disappointing and VERY DISTURBING to hear.

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I wouldn't read too much into it. The cops are going the extra mile to indemnify themselves against a campaign of charges to smear the entire lot of them as racist psychopaths. They aren't turning into speech police, and the idea that anyone is getting arrested for "misgendering" is a fantasy.

I think that for the most part, police are doing a good job of showing that all they really want to do is keep the public safe from harm by criminals. The police officers I've seen in media appearances definitely come off better before the camera than the hyperbolic accusers who seek to put the entire profession under suspicion.

Demonstrations are only a small part of police work, even in the larger cities where most of them happen. And I've seen no evidence of them "repeatedly siding with pro Hamas, Antifa, BLM and Trans Activist demonstrators." It sounds to me as if you're simply upset that they aren't cracking the skulls of people you don't like. But, if you have some factual evidence, link it...

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> and the idea that anyone is getting arrested for "misgendering" is a fantasy.

This has actually happened in Canada and the UK.

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UNBELIEVABLE❗️ WAKE UP AMERICA!

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Nov 20 2023: "A new state police unit will work with other law enforcement agencies and community partners as MA Gov. Maura Healey's administration looks to bolster strategies for addressing hate-based incidents tied to race, ethnicity and religion, among other biases." First Ammendment advocates had better keep a close watch on these initiatives!

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I'd like a link to the references. Even if the incidents you allege occurred in Canada and the UK, not the US.

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You don't have to defend law enforcement to me. Those who put their lives on the line to protect and serve have my utmost respect, but if you're not wondering what their leadership is up to you aren't paying attention. Antifa and trans activists have been treated with kid gloves, and now the same with the pro terrorist Hamas demonstrators. It's concerning to say the least.

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This "CD Reade" is acting suspiciously like a concern troll.

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Why the Feds? Why not local authorities with local insights and awareness? This is the United STATES of America, not AMERICA of States.

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I agree, Timothy. One has to be careful what one asks for. Federal law enforcement is corrupt and firmly in bed with the left. If the right is ever in charge the best move is to end the FBI, not to try to direct it against local thugs. If the Feds hadn't been exercising "oversight" of local law enforcement these past years, we'd be better off.

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The Constitution grants the federal government the authority to ensure that states have a republican form of government.

Also, there is that 14th Amendment thingy. The whole reason for federal hate crime laws was because of selective prosecution in the South back in the day. Now, Northern Democrats are playing that game.

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Don't be fooled. The "reason" for federal hate crime laws is that it gives the Feds more arbitrary power over everyone. What you stated is their BS cover. As Rand said (paraphrasing): What fun is it to govern over a bunch of innocent people? Make everyone a criminal and then you have real power.

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Even if so, we could use their BS against them next time we get in power at the federal level.

(If we ever get in power at the federal level...)

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Sounds a bit fantastical. Only a few years ago "we" were in power and the entire apparatus worked night and day against their boss, Mr. Trump (they're still at it now). What are the odds that "next time will be different"?

Vivek has the right idea here. It's possible, however long the odds, that the FBI could be eliminated. That'd be a huge win for freedom, budgets, and crime reduction.

The odds of reforming or wielding the FBI are so close to zero that it's not worth dreaming about.

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The problem with your theory is that antifa is not, in fact, a network. It's goons. Their goonery, when they get up to it, attracts every goon for a hundred miles. There is no grand plan.

There is, as a result, no danger of revolution from this quarter. You mention CHAZ, so you should see why. They cannot organize anything, even something as small as a city park. They start to eat each other alive in micro-factional conflict.

These people are completely unaware that "seizing the means of production" involves continuing to work - in fact, it means working harder. They, like most young folks today, want to be noticed, more than they want anything else.

In making them out to be some organized & dangerous faction, you are giving them a hundred times more respect than they deserve. That they invoke the horrors of fascism to justify their goonish attention-seeking behavior is a disgrace and an embarrassment far more than a danger.

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They don't need a grand plan. That's why they're dangerous. All they have to do is disrupt and destroy to win. The Marxist game is to simply tear everything down; the culture, the infrastructure, the institutions. Once it's sufficiently wrecked, they grab for control. If they don't get control, at least they've wrecked their enemy. Rinse and repeat.

It's a very effective strategy. You don't need organization, you don't need smart soldiers. You just need goons willing to cause trouble. And if you can get local courts to show favoritism to your goons, it really empowers them. The Nazi's did exactly that during Hitler's rise. Lenin had the same strategy. These guys aren't very creative but they have a very powerful and effective strategy that they all copy.

So they are, in fact, very dangerous. We let them fly under the radar at our peril.

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And I think they are better organized -- and secretly FUNDED by the usual suspects of Democrat oligarchs -- than most people know. Similar to the “pro-Palestinian” goons who are continuing the disruptions currently...take a look at the funding of the main organizers.

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Unorganized rebellion only works if its an authentic expression of majority public opinion, like the overthrow of Ceaucescu in Romania. Antifa is a self-indulgent lunatic fringe. Their most prominent impact is serving as a source of fantasy for the lunatic fringe right wing.

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The problem is that there is significant organization standing behind it, even if the low level thugs are just there to break stuff.

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show me references to what you're talking about. Direct funding links to Antifa chapters. It's practically impossible for organizers to ensure that everyone in a rally of thousands of people can be trusted to know how to act. That's what the police are there for. It's also why I can't stand demonstrations that demonize all police per se. The marchers should be offering them water, instead. Humanizing them, not objectifying them. Communicating with them on the front lines. I was a cab driver for many years. Me and the police get each other. What it can be like out there. (I get dope dealers, too. Part of the cab game is being a diplomat.)

I get that Black Lives Matter chapters have gotten funding, and that some of the local leaders and spokespeople (not all of them) have expressed extreme positions and implicit support for criminal acts in their rhetoric. But vague insinuations of some massive conspiracy don't impress me.

The shoplifting swarming rings empowered by the Internet smartphone era's ease of organization show a lot more coordination and organization than anything I've seen from Antifa, and they aren't being covertly funded by [favorite political enemy name-check here.] They're just being bandits. And the police and the statutes are in the position of having to play catch-up with the newest innovations in criminality.

American gun worship is also bearing bitter fruit, following decades of nurturing and flowering, and runaway adaptions of military tech (banana clips for rifles were not a thing prior to the explosion of the street retail markets for cocaine in the 1980s.)

Firearms are instant empowerment; anyone who is old enough to pull a trigger knows that all they have to do to strike fear into others is to point one. That message has been sent over and over by media entertainment and video games. There's no way to have 400 million of them in private hands without abundant opportunities for diversion. If you oppose even the most sensible measures for limiting the killing power of firearms and accountability in possessing them, own the consequences. We had gun control discussions and debates in my high school in the 1970s, and support for firearms ownership prevailed. But "rifle" implied a bolt-action 30.06, not an AR15 knockoff with a banana clip.

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> show me references to what you're talking about. Direct funding links to Antifa chapters.

The most obvious links is Soros supporting the campaigns of far-left DAs who then order the police to stand down in the pace of antifa violence and then refuse to prosecute them.

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that isn't a reference. It's a claim. The second part is an inference that's unsupported.

As far back as I've been reading the news, it's been common for the less serious charges against arrested participants in mass demonstrations to eventually be dismissed. It's mostly a matter of practicality for overloaded city courts, or insufficient evidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/30/archives/mayday-charges-for-800-dropped-government-asks-dismissal-in-capitol.html

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-04-10-1991100021-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-06-20-0306200333-story.html

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/occupy-wall-street-charges-dropped-brooklyn-bridge/1972110/

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Antifa are the Democrats' Brownshirts, on call 24/7 to do the dangerous, illegal stuff that the "respectables" won't do themselves. And as Democrats morph into a more openly Communist dictatorship, Antifa will become their Red Guard.

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😱 I hope you're wrong!

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You've got it, fully. Antifa is an undisciplined rabble. Breaking windows and starting fires is child's play, and that's their level. It takes more skill and effort to properly wash a sink full of dishes.

Granted, the perpetrators are capable of doing adult-size damage, and they deserve to be charged as adults for their criminal actions.

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Leftists justify violence using Marxist ideology. Examples include the critical race theory displayed during the 2020 riots and the post-colonial theory enacted during pro-Palestinian protests on campuses. Marxists believe the end justifies the means and have adopted the slogan "by any means possible." When you see these clues you can clearly identify the ideology as Marxism, which includes classic Marxism and all of its mutated variants.

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I agree. They're only doing as well as they are through intimidation tactics, and those can be stopped if we find people with the will to do it.

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Have you seen the documentary the Fall of Minneapolis?

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No - where’s that available?

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That was absolutely shocking! Much worse than I had thought previously.

It should be required watching in every school and media in the nation. Thanks for posting.

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THE FALL of MINNEAPOLIS

https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/

You will be astounded, dismayed, deeply frustrated and saddened by the information, complete with documented evidence and actual video cam footage, to back up the claims of this Documentary, Produced by Liz Collin, Written and Directed by Dr. JC Chaix.

You can't help but cheer for this righteous exposure as you cry over the senseless suffering caused by all the immoral and unlawful deceptions played upon the American public.

My heart was broken 💔 as I watched footage of what our Law Enforcement Officers were so UNJUSTLY put through to push an EVIL narrative filled with out-right lies, cover-ups and disgraceful inhumanity to the very people who have dedicated their lives to serve for the good of our Communities, States and Nation. Our Police Officers were FAILED by the cowardice of the City Government of Minneapolis (as well as other Administrations failing Officers across our Nation).

There is no doubt of the deeply challenging and difficult situations in which cities found themselves with the unruly rioting mobs. The liberal extremists voted in to run their City and State Governments carry a major burden of fault for these injustices.

Where has the desire to have Leaders of Integrity gone? More times than not, we reap what we sow.

Our Law Enforcement across our country are owed a BIG APOLOGY for the hatred, unkind actions and deep disrespect they were unjustly shown. Shame on those who participated.

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Antifa is concentrated in progressive cities which are uniformly blue.

The Progressive Left is getting what they voted for, and will continue tolerate it as some sort of Virtuous Hairshirt of Penance for their privilege.

Eventually they will tire of it, but in the meantime be thankful that unless you live in a leftist West Coast city, you don't have to actually deal with them.

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It sucks here. If I could get my wife and the cats out safely and enough of these antifa we're here, id happily call for fire on my position and done in Valhalla

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Were and done. Damn android keyboard

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Democrats welcomed political violence in 2020, when luminaries of the party, Pelosi, Harris, Waters and others, stoked BLM and Antifa riots with thinly veiled calls for destruction.

Barack Obama spoke in violent terms as well. “Republicans are the enemy.” “Get in their faces.” “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun.”

Maxine Waters exhorted leftists to attack Trump officials. Some, in fact, were attacked on the streets, and in restaurants.

It was delicious to see the DNC under attack by violent leftists last week. Democrat congresspeople in the building were scared to death. They were hoisted on the petard of their own doing.

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Your entire recommendation is that federal law enforcement should intervene? How could the feds have time? They are too busy prosecuting people who just happened to be in D.C. on 1/6/21, including those who never set foot in the Capitol or trespassed or did damage anywhere else. Actually I meant just "Republicans": https://dianelgruber.substack.com/p/joseph-bolanos-fbi-and-nbc-made-a

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The weaponization of the DoJ and the upper levels of the FBI is outrageous, dangerous and totally unacceptable.

I can only imagine the frustration and anger that grass-roots agents in the FBI are feeling.

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The DA threatening the jurors like that should be grounds for being disbarred alone. Until something is done about what they are doing in every aspect of the courts and industrial complex that surrounds it nobody is going to trust Leo or courts, judges and all. We all know what happens when the police try to police themselves. They are absolutely targeting anyone that disagrees with them. It's disgusting. Let's start a watchlist for the antifi crowd in every city and start putting their social credit out there since weaponized doj and infiltration is what they're all about going so far as to manipulate in any way they can.

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Jessica, It wasn't the DA who threatened the jurors, but the defendant's lawyer.

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That's even worse, judge allowed as did prosecutor. So one needs an anti fascist attorney to threaten people to get away with helping destroy a city. The ethics behind that. Wow. It's pretty much kangaroo court thirty everywhere. Sorry for the confusion, same wtf'ery in finality. Thanks for letting me know.

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What do you think about a series of beacon setting lawsuits across the country rather than big referendum setting lawsuits to divide the dividers. All filed at the same time to make em scramble and turn on each other and clog the courts? Lawfare for lawfare.

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YW. But it also requires a jury willing to ignore the facts and/or law to deny the state's case for conviction. The outcome here is not a good one IMO, but jury nullification is a valuable tool for those of us who believe the government has too much power.

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The jurors were SCARED. I don’t think they wanted to reinforce the lawlessness of Antifa, but they also didn’t want to be killed over it. Who can blame them? The judge, backed by his fellow justices and the institution of the court, should have pursued that lawyer to the fullest extent possible. But they didn’t...so it’s hardly surprising that many people believe that the US just-us system is utterly corrupt.

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Yes sir!

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Oh the government has way to much power at the same time would that attorney have made veiled threats or even worked as hard for a republican and was everyone going through the motions, demographics on jury pool and jury would be interesting to know before assuming it was nullification vs threat. Either way having it one way for one and not the other is just a snake eating its tail and why everyone thinks doj is a joke.

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Where is this documented? All I see here are unsourced claims.

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Gavin Newsom just removed who knows how many homeless in preparation to receive a communist pig(Xi) and 400 of our globalist billionaire a$$holes... Where did they go?

Serious disruption in only one day...

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