First virus, now riots - anyone here impacted?

[tonyg]

Nobody died, hen the right went bonkers how many died in Oklahoma City ?

Uncle Ben is next.

[easyrider]

Yes, I saw Uncle Ben's obituary this morning. Next to go will be Cracker Barrel.

[Carolinian]

So you blame a formerly unknown and undoubtedly different one from the 1920's and 30's for being terrorists, but you can't seem to find one that has been arrested. Doesn't sound to me like you know what you are talking about.

The current Antifa was organized in the Berlin squatter communes in the 1980s as an alliance of Anarchists and Communists, and spread around Europe from there, with the UK branch responsible for organizing the US branch. They took that name of the Weimar era paramilitary communist organization. There have been several arrests made in France for Antifa groups plotting to assassinate police either with bombs or guns, and in the most recent one, they had already acquired the firearms for their planned attack. A plot was uncovered in Germany by Antifa to assassinate a member of the German Bundestag.

German intelligence reports on Antifa say their preferred tactics are damage to public or private property to try to goad the police into overreaction which they can then claim is fascist.

[Carolinian]

Yes, I saw Uncle Ben's obituary this morning. Next to go will be Cracker Barrel.

It is like we are living through an American version of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Heck, I don't know who they will attack next. Already this mob has gone after Sir Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, the tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War soldier, Julius Caesar, Queen Victoria, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (a black Union regiment whose exploits were the basis for the movie "Glory"), Lord Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts), Thomas Jefferson, Columbus, Captain Cook and the list could go on.

I was pleased to see New York Governor Cuomo push back and call their attacks on Columbus monuments an affront to Italian Americans. Even better was the nationally televised speech by President Macron of France in which he said he was not going to allow anyone to be erased from history or any monument to be taken down. It is a sad day for America when a French president has more 'nads than our sorry politicians.

Not everyone in the black community is thrilled with the "virtue signalling" by "woke" corporations, like this great grandson of "Aunt Jemima" upset at the attack on his own family legacy by Quaker Oats:
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/a...gacy-vanishing

[easyrider]

Oddly, it seems like the politicians are using Sun Tzu's Art of War on antifa in Seattle. Sun says "it is better to capture an enemy than to destroy them."

[tonyg]

Well, we can't have Aunt Jemiima's great grandson upset about his family legacy. And how many ANTIFA members have been captured ? Maybe you guys should go back to the windmills causing brain cancer - must be the reason no one goes to pick up all he dead eagles.

[JLB]

Impacted?

No. I take a probiotic.

[JLB]

oops

forgot how to do this

[Carolinian]

Apparently the real terrorist group in the right wing Boogaloo which has had a couple arrested for muder this week.

The Boogaloos are anarchists who have more in common with the left. In fact, a number of Boogaloos were arrested for a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, and it turned out that those plotters had marched with BLM and were Trump haters. Hardly "right wing".

[Carolinian]

Well, we can't have Aunt Jemiima's great grandson upset about his family legacy. And how many ANTIFA members have been captured ? Maybe you guys should go back to the windmills causing brain cancer - must be the reason no one goes to pick up all he dead eagles.

Maybe you have not followed that issue so well. Try www.savetheeaglesinternational.org

Or here is a good music video - "Where have all the eagles gone?