Federal authorities intervened after clashes between armed far-right groups, some with “ties to fascist” organizations, and anti-racism protesters near the Justice Center in downtown Portland, Oregon, saw rocks, mace and paint balls used, per the Oregonian.

Of note: Portland Police officers “remained at a distance … even as people beat others with sticks, and at least two right-wing activists brandished handguns,” the Washington Post reports. The police blamed limited resources in a statement on “why the events downtown were not declared a riot and why police did not intervene.”

Why it matters: Portland Police have frequently declared riots during unrest in the city since Black Lives Matter protests began 85 days ago, including on Friday.

What they’re saying: The police said Portland officers “have been the focus of over 80 days of violent actions directed at the police, which is a major consideration for determining if police resources are necessary to interject.”

• According to the police, there were “some physical interactions which quickly resolved themselves” during the two-hour standoff.

“Some members from both groups threw projectiles and deployed aerosols like pepper and bear spray at each other. At times, fireworks were thrown and smoke canisters were deployed. Each skirmish appeared to involve willing participants and the events were not enduring in time, so officers were not deployed to intervene.”

— Police statement

Source: https://www.axios.com/portland-far-right-clashes-no-riot-declared-0d29e6df-8db7-4dd2-a562-b2b3be2af818.html

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Stand by to be refused service or canceled completely.  You might lose your job.  Maybe you’ll be kicked out of the store or restaurant.  Unless of course you’re willing to bow down to every new mandate that someone dreams up.  Then they might just leave you alone, temporarily.  Better not draw any red lines that you’ve already decided not to cross.  Red lines are not allowed.  When the authorities agree on what you must do, the media tells you why you must comply, and the corporations (or local businesses) demand you come to heel if you want to access their products or services, you know you’re stuck.

Take a look at the things that our nation has determined that we will all accept, or at least not make a stink about.  Evolution.  Global Warming (along with the attendant worship of windmills and solar panels). Abortion.  Homosexuality.  Transgenderism. Multiculturalism, diverthity, rioting and looting, mandatory masks, social distancing… What will they demand next?  And the big question.  Will we be prepared to accept the next mandate?

If you look at the list of things we’ve been made to choke down, you’ll realize this has been a long game.  Our whole culture has gradually gotten us used to the idea of compliance with every clap-trap demand.  The enforcers are not necessarily even government agencies or officers.  Sometimes the places we go to buy what we need or want are the enforcers. It might not even be a manager or employee of the business.  It might well be some angry female on aisle 9 throwing a raging fit at you.   She’s screaming her head off, thankfully somewhat muffled by her N-95, about “keeping everyone safe!”

“Somebody call the cops!”  Not long ago the “woke” logic went like this.     Why do you need a gun?  All you need to do is call the police and they’ll handle it.  Lately we’ve been shown that doesn’t work.  (It still works in East Texas, but this is the exception.)  Good luck in the big cities.  Now the “woke” crowd demands the police be abolished or defunded.  Who you gonna call?  What if black lives matter and antifa decide to come to your middle-class neighborhood at say, 3 am, shouting through bull horns that you need to get out of your house and surrender your belongings to them.  That’s already started to happen in Seattle and Portland.  Mobs are assembling in the wee hours to bang drums and scream profanities at confused, groggy residents, waking their kids and the dogs, telling them they’ve got to give up their residences, trying to get them to come out onto the street.  No word if any police showed up.  Probably not.  It’s Seattle and Portland after all.

They’ve got all the answers on the west coast, all right.  They’ve apparently replaced some of the traditional power plants with their lovely windmills and solar farms.  Trouble is, they don’t make enough power for the cities (what a shock) especially when it’s really hot, as it is right now.  So there are rolling black-outs.  Just like the third world.

It looks as though the nonsense is going to keep coming.  After all, nobody is pushing back against every un-American, anti-freedom, un-Constitutional mandate they can dream up.  But it’s just getting off the ground.  Who’s going to put a stop to it if the people won’t.  This is the only last hope for avoiding utter tyranny.  Think they’re going to stand up in Australia?  Wait ’till you read the article in our upcoming WATCH magazine if you think they might.  The state of Victoria and the city of Melbourne have gone full police-state with dire penalties for anyone daring to break whatever new set of rules has been announced.  And they are incredibly dire and ruinous.  Crocodile Dundee must have been a one-off.  Even the British press is alarmed.  You think they’re going to stand against tyrannical nonsense in Britain or Canada?  Right.  Here in the U. S. we’ve seen a minimum of push back, but lots of, let’s say non-compliance.  A few have filed lawsuits, or refused to close.  So few that the police have been able to descend in force.

Rioting, looting, arson, marauding in sleeping neighborhoods.  That’s all fine, and so very non-violent.  But call the wrong pro-noun (oops, who could know for sure?) and that’s it.  You’re fired, and good luck ever working again!

Maybe you’ve got your own theory, and maybe you’re right.  But it looks like God has taken about enough abuse.  Not just from the goon squad in the streets, but from all of us who’ve stood by while our national sins have become symbols of pride.  A reason to parade!  Now we’re suffering the beginning stages of the curses that accompany such sins automatically.  There might have been some hope of turning back, on the other hand it looks a little late.

Once the “authorities” have got us used to bowing down for every bit of “woke” nonsense, how hard will it be to implement the scourges of the end time?  We’d better hope God knows who we are and approves of what we’ve done in these “trying times.”  Those who refuse the “mark of the beast,” which will be a global MANDATE, are the only ones who will receive His reward.  Some will be martyred for their rebellion against whatever stupidity awaits.  Mankind as a whole will reap the whirlwind, and worse.

We’re being asked, no TOLD, that we must accept total garbage as the truth, when we know better.  The nightly “news” anchors lie in our faces, and then roll their eyes about any who dare disagree with them.  They’re some of the worst offenders.  The time for quiet acquiescence to our national sins is just about up.  If we’re to “cry aloud and spare not,” we better start taking a look at what we’ve already swallowed.  If we relied on social media for traction, we would have long ago been silenced.  If the communists overtake us, they’ll track us down.  That is, if the lady at the grocery store doesn’t get to us first.   Have a great SABBATH.

Mark

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Ariel Atkins spoke outside a police station in the South Loop on 18th and South State Street on Monday, where protesters had gathered to call for the release of those who were arrested.

“I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes,” Atkins said, according to NBC Chicago.

“That’s reparations. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance. They’re going to get their money back. My people aren’t getting anything.”

Atkins also hit back at Rev. Jesse Jackson, who tweeted earlier on Monday that the looting that had taken place in Chicago was “morally wrong.”

He wrote: “This act of pillaging, robbing & looting in Chicago was humiliating, embarrassing & morally wrong. It must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality.”

But Atkins maintained that Jackson “has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter.”

She added: “Jesse Jackson was not there for the creation of Black Lives Matter. Jesse Jackson can keep his opinions to himself.”

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During a news conference on Monday, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said more than 400 officers had been deployed to stop the mass looting and unrest that broke out in the hours after police shot a man in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side on Sunday.

He said more than 100 people were arrested for charges including looting, disorderly conduct, and battery against police.

Authorities said misinformation circulated that the person shot on Sunday was a child and social media posts had encouraged looting.

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Protesters burned an American flag and a Bible in Portland, Oregon, sparking outrage just as weeks of violent demonstrations seemed to be coming to a close.

For more than 60 days, Black Lives Matters demonstrators, including a “Wall of Moms” and a “Wall of Vets,” have clashed with federal agents in the city, drawing national attention as authorities blasted marchers with tear gas and the civilians at times responded with weapons of their own — such as feces, bleach, bricks or batteries.

Friday night’s demonstrations were largely peaceful, appearing to mark a break from the chaos as federal agents made a recent deal to allow local authorities to handle the protests.

But just after midnight, marchers were caught on video using the flag and holy book as kindling for bonfires lit outside the federal courthouse, which has been a focal point of rioting after the death of George Floyd in police custody in May, according to a news report.

“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” claimed Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter Saturday.

The post featured a video which showed protestors with “Black Lives Matter” signs tossing bibles into a raging bonfire. The video, which has gone viral, had more than 1.8 million views and thousands of retweets.

“Now we move to the book-burning phase,” said Donald Trump Jr. in a tweet Saturday. “I’m pretty sure ANTIFA doesn’t actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of [their] name and it’s perfect,” he wrote.

The fire was later put out by members of Moms United for Black Lives Matter, who doused the flames with bottles of water and stomped on the embers, according to KOIN 6, a local CBS affiliate television station in Portland.

Source: https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/protestors-burn-bible-american-flag-as-tensions-rise-in-portland/

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It may not be news on the mainstream outlets, but we’re in the middle of an insurrection to overthrow everything to do with the United States.  Months after the fact, “protesters” are still battling police in the streets at all hours of the night and early morning.  They’ve spray-painted buildings, including federal offices and courthouses.  The coalition of antifa, black lives matter and Muslim brotherhood have banded together to battle police throwing every available projectile at them.  President Trump has sent officers from the Border Patrol and Homeland Security to protect federal property, and you undoubtedly know the response, not only from the protest groups, but from the “progressive” Mayors of Portland, Chicago and other big cities.

“Clean up the graffiti and go home!”  For at least a week most media outlets have come unglued, claiming that Trump has unleashed “federal troops” to “disappear peaceful protesters in unmarked vehicles.”  They’ve said, “This is what we’d expect of a foreign dictator.”  It looks as though we can expect this narrative to play on.  The President has just said he intends to send federal police to a list of cities, including Albuquerque?

Apparently the carnage in Minneapolis and New York was so spectacular, the media failed to even inform us about what a hotbed Portland had become.  The insanity is ongoing in Portland to this day.  It’s the sixties all over again, with a whole generation having been brainwashed instead of educated. The radical bombers and rioters of the ’60s are now esteemed professors, and they’ve turned the nation’s youth against their own parents and against the United States.

There’s no way I can’t tell you of the work Glenn Beck has done, exposing the connections between the radical professors, the “Arab Spring” protests that roiled the Middle East, the invasion of Europe by “poor refugees” and now the full-blown attempt to destroy the American culture and economy.  He’s got the goods.

Some of us have been highly suspicious of the media reporting about the Chinese virus.  Yes, we do know of a handful of people who are said to have tested positive.  But none of them died, and for some it was a matter of something like the common cold.  For others we know it was like a bad flu, but they survived it and are doing fine.  Nevertheless, every news report claims a new spike in cases, and proceeds to lecture that you must be afraid.

News anchors across the board read the “wire,” claiming that cases are “exploding” in state after state, county after county, city after city.  You must proceed with fear, assuming you proceed at all.   They express total exasperation at President Trump for not having issued a national mask order.  Meanwhile lawsuits are flying over mask “mandates.”  All the mandates we care about are the ones God-ordained.  Isn’t that the whole idea behind the American philosophy?  Laws are to maintain a peaceful, orderly society according to God’s Laws for mankind.  Beyond that, we don’t think too much of little officials who’ve had a taste of power.

Here in Texas, our governor saw fit to order a mask mandate.  He says we can all go back to living if we’ll just wear our masks, wash our hands, stay at least six feet apart and stop touching our faces.  You’d be amazed at how few pay the least bit of attention.  But businesses don’t have that luxury.  If they’re a restaurant or bar, they can have their business license or liquor license revoked if they don’t follow protocol, regardless of the soundness of whatever logic the “authorities” are pushing this week.  Credit goes to Victor Davis Hansen for coming up with this gem.  “They’re trying to save our lives by preventing us from living.”

Meanwhile, the media’s beloved protesters obviously don’t care a whit about “keeping everyone safe.”  Portland, Oregon has nightly battles between protesters and police.  These poor cops are standing around dodging rocks, bricks and frozen water bottles.  Meanwhile the President sent in some Border Patrol, U. S. Marshals, and DHS officers to protect the federal courthouse and office buildings.  And the media goes nuts.

Who knew there was trouble in Albuquerque, of all places?  It’s going to get a compliment of federal police too.  Turns out they’ve had violent confrontations in the streets resulting in shootings.  All this is over a statue of a conquistador who founded the settlement, but is accused having massacred Indians.  All that happened some 400 years ago, long before the founding of the United States.  Do you ever get the idea that radicals are just looking for an excuse to create anarchy?

It’s “marshal law” say all the networks.  They’re “stormtroopers.”  It’s the gestapo!  Anchors and “experts” on all the cable channels claim that this is merely a dry run for when Trump refuses to leave the White House after losing the upcoming election.  They wedge that in between calling the President a racist, xenophobe, narcissist, dictator, claiming he values his political fortunes more than he cares about the people of the United States.  Just guessing, but it’s doubtful many would have given up the luxury and freedom of his billionaire lifestyle to become the target of lowlife communists, the darlings of network anchors.

The Church of God has a history of preaching that the end of the age is at hand.  It made the mistake of predicting that the church would flee to a place of safety, even naming that place, as the tribulation of Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation began destroying western culture.  That was fifty and more years ago.  Since then, some of these guys who led away splinter groups have called themselves prophets and apostles and claim they are administering the “government of God” among their flocks and will lead them to a place of safety.  That is, after their people have given everything they have to the “church.”

If somebody knows what they’re saying or doing now, please keep it to yourself.  We don’t even want to know.  It’s a huge embarrassment that they took some of the most bizarre claims of Herbert W. Armstrong very late in his life, when he was suffering severe health problems and under the smothering influence of his “advisor,” and applied those claims to themselves.  Suddenly they are apostles and prophets with God’s infallibility, and people just wait for their instructions.  If you’ve ever been under such dictatorial authority, our hearts go out to you.

Ours is a work of watching and warning, not issuing and enforcing “orders.”  Things are getting mighty dicey of late.  We’ve got a communist insurrection underway that is wealthy and has the tacit approval of most mainstream corporations and media.  Sports used to be a way of escaping the nonsense.  Not any more.  The franchises are all going to rub our faces in their racist nonsense.  Professional baseball, basketball and football have gone out of their way to let us know they side with the mob.  Most TV networks are not only on board, but airing ads about how they stand for diversity, inclusion, equality and justice.  In fact, they’re hoping they don’t get burned to the ground.

When you look at the bravery and the dignity with which our founders conducted themselves in the business of winning our freedom, this stuff looks like tiddlywinks.  But only in terms of its actual importance.  Some of us believe the racists are the people trying to rile everybody up about racism.  The rest of us are hoping the anarchists and the violent masked masses find something productive to do with their lives.

The United States has been a great blessing to all mankind.  We’ve got real concerns, and no time to be drawn aside by a bunch of thugs yearning to loot expensive retailers.  We want the police to do their jobs and return peace and order to cities and public places.  We’re not about to take a knee, or join some movement of appeasement.  If they’re bent out of shape about some historical injustice, they can write a letter.  But attacking police has got to stop.  Rioting, burning, looting is not protest.  The protests are NOT peaceful.  They are cover for a movement that seeks to destroy Western culture.

In my neighborhood, two houses have lawn signs that say God is in control.  Certainly God has intervened at critical times in history, and you’d have to be blind to ignore the miracles He wrought, several in the war that won our independence.  But the idea that He’s “controlling” the lies, the deceptions and the violence we see playing out around us seems a stretch.  My Dad believed that God allowed humanity to do what it would, intervening only when He saw fit.  Will He see fit to intervene and save the Western world?  Does the Western world deserve His intervention and continued blessings?

God is in control whenever He wants to be.  Otherwise, he’s allowing events to unfold here on Earth.  He hears the prayers of the righteous, but how many are there?  It seems that there are many upright people trying to do what’s right, but have been deceived by their own families and churches about God’s Sabbaths and commanded observances that commemorate historical events of all our forefathers.  There are things they don’t understand and cannot accept, but they are living otherwise honorable lives.

Evil has descended upon the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Europe.  All have been consumed by the deception we call fake news.  Every one of those nations has already fallen victim to an ideology of evil, contrary to the Bible and contrary to the founding principles that allowed for the peace and prosperity foretold and promised to Abraham by God.  He made good on His promises, but our societies have long since abandoned our responsibilities that were part of the covenant.  In essence, we’ve nationally reneged on respecting His Word and obeying His Laws.

Society has demanded that we acquiesce to some of the most heinous sins ever invented.  They are celebrated with parades and debauchery, you must applaud lest “society” destroy your life.  Our nation needs the prayers of people God respects.  We’re in the middle of a big deal, and it’s starting to look as if there’s no going back.  Not only with the communists that want to destroy freedom and capitalism, but with communist China. If we want God to intervene and save Western civilization one more time, it will take repentance for having broken His Laws.  No, there is not yet a ten-nation beast power.  Jerusalem is not surrounded with armies.  We can still buy and sell, sort of.  The abomination of desolation has not been set up, and there is yet no temple.  But Western civilization is in grave trouble.  We suspect that the author of evil is directing the deception and the destruction, and we know where the only hope lies.

Mark

PS  It looks as though we’ll still be able to keep all our Feast sites running. Of particular concern was the one at Land Between the Lakes.  But that was a false alarm and we are secure in that location.  Any questions can be directed to our Coordinator Mike Partridge (812) 867-9835.

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For some time they were patient with those who believe in inviolable rights handed down from the Creator God.  It’s in our Declaration and codified in Constitutional language.  But they’ve had enough already.  Now, you will submit on the basis of keeping everybody safe, or they’d have you believe that you’re risking “killing people” by transmitting a disease you don’t know you have.  So you’re not sick?  That’s what you think.  Why, this virus can hide out for at least a couple of weeks while you spread it to people who’ll die.  It’s made to order for the destruction of capitalism. They’d have us believe that simply displaying a mask is somehow “saving lives,”  even if you’re not sick.  Perhaps especially if you’re not sick because it’s sending a message to everyone around you.

Because many have refused to play by the new rules, governors are threatening to shut down everything completely.  In California, business concerns were “allowed” to begin working again as long as all COVID protocols were followed.  But then a funny thing happened.  Hardly anyone showed up anywhere with masks and gloves.  It’s not nice to flaunt official MANDATES.  So now everything has to be shut down again!  That ought to teach the public that when the governor or mayor gives an order, you better obey their mandates, or suffer their wrath.

New definitions for words have been devised, and a whole new range of phrases that don’t mean what you thought they did.  It’s not acceptable anymore to say you’re not racist.  Under the evolving new lingo, that’s proof positive that you’re a racist, alright.  You must be “anti-racist” in order to be left alone, and that means supporting the tenants of BLM (which used to stand for the Bureau of Land Management, but that’s probably a racist bit of knowledge).   Somewhere in the process of being “anti-racist”, you must admit that “systemic racism” is part and parcel with American culture and the capitalist system.  Becoming “anti-racist” means you have to help, or at least support its destruction.

It’s why you keep hearing about the need for a “conversation.”  Nothing means what it did.   Innocent-sounding phrases now have all kinds of ramifications, and you must learn what things really mean, and why you’ve been part of the problem without knowing it; why you’re probably sick and don’t know it.  In short, we’re being herded into admission and submission.  It looks like that is what nearly all the big corporations, everything from TV networks to sporting goods chains are doing, admission and submission.  Corporations think the quickest way to get the goon squad out of the street and off their backs is to agree to every demand coming our way.

That means changing the names of everything.  The Washington Redskins announced that they’re giving in as an organization, and now they’re going to change the name.  We’re not sure to what.  Glenn Beck suggested The Washington Weasels.  It’s hard to remember how many times this argument has come around.  The last time it did, they couldn’t seem to find any tribe or Indian representative who was offended.  It seems like some came forward and said explicitly that the moniker wasn’t offensive, but that was then.  Now they’ve got BLM, antifa, the Muslim Brotherhood and every other radical misfit on the bandwagon.  From recent experience, they know and we know that there will be attacks, fires interspersed with “peaceful protests” at any attempt to go forward without taking a knee for the mob.  But that won’t be the end of it.  They’ll have another grievance soon.

Here in Tyler, the local news reported this morning that there will be meetings to determine whether the names of both high schools in town must be changed.  One is John Tyler High School, the other is Robert E. Lee High School.  If they manage to get those names changed, maybe the name of the city is next!  At the rate names of things and places are falling into disrepute, soon we may not know where we are or where we’re going.

Disney, of all places, has the quarterback with a hairband who doesn’t play football as a production partner to give his unique perspective on all aspects of race relations in sports.  He’s going to produce a special that chronicles his life, and it’s going to include never-before-seen footage that’s been shot over these years he’s not been playing.  Oh boy, we can’t wait!  Instead of football, he’s been signing big deals with the likes of Nike just to make sure we never buy another pair of shoes from them.  That ought to show us!

News anchors have been beside themselves because our president wouldn’t don a mask in public, and finally, they claim, a hospital visit was put on his official schedule for the express purpose of getting pictures of Donald Trump in a mask.  “Pretty sad,” said CNN.  He’d never have set the photographic example, except that they put him in a hospital situation where infectious patients in residence made it a necessity.  Too bad he didn’t just refuse to go the hospital under the circumstances.  If he’d done that, there would have been a media meltdown that would have lasted until they had another bombshell accusation.  Maybe he needs new advisors and planners.  Going along with the demands of the mob right now is tantamount to helping accomplish the goal of a communist revolution.  Some of us just aren’t on board!

Crime has exploded in America’s big cities.  Police in New York (and many other places) are afraid to do their jobs, lest they be called you know what, possibly fired and prosecuted.  Criminals have been encouraged to resist and fight police or run if confronted.  Even a presidential hopeful is now calling police “the enemy.”

The destruction of Western civilization is underway, and it’s being carried out in such a way that no one dares fight back.  After all, you may get the dreaded virus and DIE.  Every time it looks like the economy may bounce back, the news reporters ON EVERY NETWORK and local station dependent on wire services announces a spike in cases.  This testing extravaganza was a bad idea.  It’s hard to know whether the tests are unreliable, or those conducting them are part of the plot.  Laura Ingraham reported that the testing stations in Florida are reporting 100% of people tested are positive, none negative.  In Virginia, every time they get another positive result out of someone who’s tested positive, it’s listed as an additional case.  One person who tested positive 15 times has been reported as 15 separate cases in the “numbers,” which of course don’t lie.

It was reported today that the U. S. government has dispatched an estimated  EIGHT TRILLION dollars to make sure people weren’t under undue financial stress as they stayed home unable to go to work, lest one or another state government make an example of them.  It turns out that’s a “guestimate” for all of 2020.  A mere 4.75 trillion has been expended to date.

Several states that make up a sizable proportion of American productivity are still LOCKED DOWN.  They’re determined that children not return to school in the fall, and that means many adults have a problem going to work, assuming it’s “allowed.”  That ought to fix capitalism, once and for all.

Maybe you’ve noticed, the lock-downs include churches!  You will NOT assemble to worship God, or the police might show up!  So who do you fear?  The rioters obviously don’t fear the authorities or God.  We fear and worship God, and the local “authorities” will learn to sooner or later, assuming they ever get over their power trip.

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A couple captured on cellphone video painting over a Black Lives Matter street mural installation has been charged with a hate crime over the incident.

Black Lives Matter supporters recorded a woman using a roller paintbrush to paint over the art and her male partner in a very heated viral video. The incident happened in Martinez, California, on the Fourth of July.

“There is no oppression, there is no racism,” says the man. “It’s a leftist lie.”

On Tuesday Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton announced in a statement that the couple had been charged with a hate crime.

“Today, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office charged Nichole Anderson (42-years old Martinez resident) and David Nelson (53-years-old Martinez resident) with three misdemeanor counts, including a hate crime, for their alleged actions on Saturday, July 4, when defendant Anderson covered up a Black Lives Matter mural with black paint,” read the statement.

Becton points out in the statement that the temporary mural was approved by the City of Martinez, and had been painted just hours prior to the vandalism.

If found guilty, the couple could face up to a year in county jail.

Source: https://www.theblaze.com/news/martinez-blm-mural-hate-crime

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No one dares talk back, let alone do anything to stop the communist takeover underway.  If Trump does anything they’ll call him a dictator, which of course, they do anyway.  The mayors and police authorities in the smoldering cities won’t do much.  They’re taking a knee, in some cases literally bowing down before crowds capable of destroying everything in sight if provoked.

Every big-name company and corporation is bowing down, or in many cases actually giving large sums of money, or should we say buying protection—mafia style—to the organizations that are funding the mob.  And it’s not just Black Lives Matter, although the admittedly Marxist outfit obviously welcomes the muscle of the anarchists, the rainbow crowd and every other dispossessed misfit. They’ve joined together to insist that all law enforcement is intrinsically racist, and so are you!  Any denial will get you beat to a pulp.  If you get in the way of the mob, you won’t even have a chance to make such a denial, which anyway would be proof of guilt to the goons.  Assuming these people wreaking havoc know something about anything, which is highly doubtful.

Watching everybody take a knee in fear, meet the mob half way, accept the destruction of our history, and “take responsibility” for things that happened in another era is the most pitiful display ever witnessed.  The media has determined that they will make us kneel!  Make us wear a mask, regardless!  Force an admission of racism or else.

Now there’s another preposterous accusation, and we’re supposed to believe it this time.  With somber tones and straight faces, the “news” people told us that Trump was “colluding with Russia.”  They told us that he was Putin’s puppet, doing Russia’s bidding from the Oval Office.  And Mike Flynn was betraying the United States, and conniving with the Kremlin in secret phone calls.  For three years the “news” media maintained it’s somber demeanor while they accused the most patriotic of Americans of sedition, perhaps treason.  They ridiculed everyone who didn’t buy their idiotic claims, calling us stupid and unwilling to accept reality.

When it blew up in their faces after three years of pumping out the story day and night, they hardly noticed that their big investigation yielded nothing beyond the deep-state coup that they insisted was a conspiracy theory.  Maybe that’s because the “news” media was up to its eyeballs in the farce, complicit in reporting every false story from their “insiders” and “whistle-blowers.”  The whole thing blew up in their gay faces.  The Mueller investigation they’d hyped for nearly Trump’s whole first term was a complete and utter embarrassment.  Mueller fell completely apart in public testimony, revealing that he didn’t even know, in some cases had never heard of,  things that appeared in the report he’d supposedly written.

But that didn’t slow them down one bit.  The corrupt media moved seamlessly toward impeachment with the ungainly Schiff and Nadler leading the charge.  The media, once again, was all in on President Trump’s guilt.  It was all in the Ukrainian phone call!  But, once again Schiff, Nadler and their minions lied every day and night to the media, and the media lied to all of us, insisting that high crimes and misdemeanors had been committed by the President, and the only remedy was removal from office.  But that left them with soot all over their faces like cartoon characters that accidentally blew themselves up.  Still, they never noticed, never apologized, never admitted what fools they’d made of themselves for all to see.  Instead, they purported to still believe their own fake news and figured they were probably right all along, despite their inability to prove any claims they’d been making for years.

The mainstream media has yet to own up to its role in trying to bring down a presidential administration on the basis of, shall we say, nonsense.  Now, they’ve got a brand new toy.  This time they’re claiming that Trump was briefed on a report that Russia was paying Taliban terrorists a bounty for every American soldier they could kill, and the President hid that fact, knowing full well that American soldiers were being killed for money.

It’s just as far-fetched, and divorced from reality as the previous “news” reports. It’s a quandary as to how President Trump has even survived.  He’s had corrupt federal agencies, together with the corrupt media working day and night to accuse him of the most outlandish, nonsensical intentions all the while scolding the population about how racist we all are.  Racism, they say, is a fact of America’s founding.  They’re trying to say the very existence of our flag, our national anthem, our founders, our history and our whole culture is irredeemably racist.

They’ve thrown red paint all over memorials of George Washington.  They’ve toppled statues of every respected or reviled figure in American history.  They’ve burned some of the most expensive retail locations, rampaging like the criminal idiots they are, fists in the air as they cavort in silhouette.

Can you point to ANYONE (save DJT) who dares stand up and defend America?  The so-called conservatives in government have fallen over like bowling pins.  They’re prepared to give in to all manner of demands.  The so-called conservatives are quietly working to root out Columbus Day and replace it with Juneteenth.  The important thing, and parties on all sides of every debate are absolutely sure of one thing:  We must wear masks!

Even one of the most popular “conservative” voices is on every day and night saying, “If we can go back to ball games, we’ll wear them.”  Maybe he will.  Some of us might just as soon not go anywhere the mask police will harass us.  The idea that some believe that we have the constitutionally guaranteed freedom not to make any of several public statements that masks represent just drives the media personalities to distraction.  They claim that their insistence is not even politically motivated.  But you’re just “so wrong” if you think you have the freedom NOT to make all the statements the mask represents.

Wearing the mask says you believe in the sham-demic, and one or two of us don’t.  It says that you want to patronize some business or another so badly that you’ll capitulate to the pressure.  You have to fly after all, don’t you?  You will wear the mask or be removed from the flight, as has happened already.  Wearing the mask also is a sign (to some of us) that you’ve taken a knee.  That you believe in all their nonsense and submit.  We’re being softened up to submit to things we don’t respect or believe in.  How about #TogetherAlone?  That makes no sense, but you’re expected to feel a rush of warmth at the idea of people watching each other eat on computer screens, and pretend like they’ve been to dinner.  If you think pressure to wear a mask is intense, wait till they decide everybody must shave their heads for the public health, or take a Mark in order to participate in economic activity.  That’ll fix us.

What won’t we accept?  Especially when they accuse us of “endangering the public.”  You must SUBMIT to society’s demands.  Even the mob wears masks, but it has nothing to do with the virus.  When we all wear masks, we signal agreement with the mob.  The fact that governors and mayors are doing the bidding of the goon-squad is no sign that the rest of us are ready to relinquish our Constitution, the Bill or Rights, the Declaration of Independence, or history or culture.  You obviously are FREE to make your own decisions, without speaking for anyone else.  Aren’t we all?  Some, apparently few, of us believe that appeasement is not the answer.  Thanks anyway, Governor Abbot.   But the Governor has bought in to the phony “spike” stories that the “news” media tells us are true, and set Texas back even further as to any hope of a swift recovery.  It looks like the media, or the mob has gotten to him.

On the first or second of July, CNN’s Erin Burnett shook her head in exasperation explaining that some people consider the maze of mandates an infringement of personal freedoms and liberties guaranteed in all our founding documents.  “That’s so WRONG!” she explained, out of breath, shaking her head in disbelief, amazed that anyone would dare even make such a claim.  Across the board, including many of the “contributors” on Fox News, they are incredulous that President Trump has not issued a national mask mandate, and spend countless hours expressing disbelief.  Never mind the details.  Never mind Dr. Fauci’s earlier statements about the ineffectiveness of masks and the statement, “There’s no need for Americans to go around wearing masks…”  No, the good doctor has changed his mind, and as you all know, we need to make a U-turn every time the self-impressed little leprechaun thinks he’s cuter than before.

Crime has gone exponential in every big city.  Even the fake news admits it obliquely while insisting that the protesters are peaceful, and we need to take note.  The police now know that any time they’re summoned, thinking someone’s been shot or killed, it could well be an ambush.  It’s happened repeatedly.  Murders, robberies and assaults are occurring at vastly increased rates in most cities.  Meanwhile mayors and city officials are rushing to pass rules and laws that might appease the mob.  The “de-fund the police” movement has gained traction.  New York’s de Blasio and kindred spirits across the United States are falling all over themselves to grant mob wishes by slashing police budgets.  De Blasio’s slash is reportedly one billion dollars.  The Minneapolis City Council has resolved to abolish the police and “RE-IMAGINE” law enforcement.  Everybody’s repeating the magic re-imagine phrase.  But the insurrectionists have a never-ending wish list that includes the redistribution of all private property.  In fact they hate, viscerally, the very concept of private property.

They are felling statues and memorials at a blinding pace.  Now they are after the founders and framers, without whom none of these cities would have existed in the first place.  Without the idea of America, governed by “We, the People” we probably wouldn’t even be here, and might never have been born.  There certainly wouldn’t be the kind of wealth they love to plunder, or cities to loot and burn.  But they’re on a roll, and can’t be bothered with logic just now.  They’re happy to let the homosexuals that dominate prime time do their explaining.  Have you seen these idiots cavorting in the faces of policemen?  Have you looked at those desecrating memorials and pulling down statues?  Are they being paid?  Because from the looks of them, they likely don’t know anything about anything.

There are some voices, even in the medical community who say the “spike” in virus cases is a farce.  Sick people are going to hospitals all right.  For two months they were afraid to go, and now they’re flooding in.  Hospitals are testing everyone, and claiming COVID cases exist in patients who’ve come in for other reasons.  Reporters are giddy, breathless, as the inevitable spike leads every news report.   To supporters of the riots; to the officials who’ve waited a lifetime for the opportunity to clamp down on the general population; to the flabbergasted mainstream reporters who just can’t believe that no national mask mandate has been declared; it’s the best news they could have hoped for.

Time is short.  The mob, backed by the media and business entities paying protection in a myriad of ways, needs to bring down Trump, Attorney General Barr or if necessary the whole system of governance in the United States before the lead players in the failed coup are indicted.  It was announced just last night that a whole bunch in the House of Representatives have signed a petition calling for the impeachment of Barr.  To justify it, they trotted out one of those who claimed to have “proof” of Russian collusion for the past three years.  He’s concerned about damage to the rule of law if Barr should continue in office.  In fact, it’s Obama’s inner circle and his agency brass that are implicated in the earlier attempt at insurrection.  Supposedly the cases are nearing completion, but we’ve heard that before.  Nonetheless, all the big name Deep State players have reportedly lawyered up just in case.  Meanwhile, many federal employees and heads of agencies support the ongoing insurrection against the United States in general, and against the current President in particular.  It’s a battle for the soul of the United States, and everybody seems willing to appease the mob.  They’ll never be appeased, and they’ll never stop making demands, no matter what we do.

Source: https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/the-mob-demands-death-to-america-and-the-mainstream-agrees/

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