90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Stand Up, No Matter What.

The Launch Of America’s Maoist Cultural Revolution?

For most Americans, our current summer of discontent launched like a bolt from the blue. It began with the explosion of violence in cities, led by angry mobs attacking and calling for the overthrow of an allegedly unjust old order. Their methods range from mass demonstrations to destruction of political-historical symbols to in-person and online “struggle sessions” often referred to as “cancel culture” in today’s jargon.

The catalyst for the current campaign ostensibly is the May 25 suffocation of George Floyd, seen around the world. The terrible image and reality of former Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee to the victim’s neck, while universally denounced and condemned, provoked a powerful political and media reaction. It also fueled the launch of a mass campaign protesting systemic injustice, whose declared objectives go well beyond issues of race and police conduct at the heart of the Minneapolis tragedy.

While they sympathize with the anger at the injustice in Minneapolis and the need for a systemic response, many Americans can be forgiven for being concerned the current mass movement is not a call for reform or restitution. It is an organized attack on the foundations of America itself.

Targeted mass attack on individuals, institutions and property is alien to the 21st century American experience. Revisionist attacks on public monuments of all kinds are confusing. Shaming and crucifixion of public figures and corporations – who fail to genuflect and seek atonement before the mob – is truly shocking.

Our current experience feels alien and un-American for a reason. It is an echo of the Communist Chinese Cultural Revolution of a half century ago.

Fearing loss of control over the “New China” he established in 1949 after the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution in May 1966 to purify the nation of...

Publishers, TV stations, artists, politicians and corporates bow to BLM movement

Left-wing ideologists usually label alleged racial discrimination as "structural" if they cannot prove it in concrete terms.
Therefore, pretty much anything can now fall into this category and the list of what is no longer considered politically correct grows in relation to the constant shrinking of all freedom of speech and thought.

Publishers, TV stations, artists, politicians from almost all parties and even large global corporations are increasingly giving in to the tyranny of “anti-racists”. The French cosmetics manufacturer L’Oreal has just officially announced that it would no longer use terms such as “brighteners” or “bleaching” on its skin care products, while its Dutch-British competitor Unilever had previously announced that it would like to give its face cream “Fair & Lovely” a different name in view of the racism debate.

Unilever has also joined Coca-Cola, Starbucks and a host of other brands in instituting a boycott of Facebook because it is not doing enough to censor dissident opinions from the right of the political spectrum. According to an article on Marketing Week yesterday, more than ninety major advertisers have joined a “Stop Hate For Profit” campaign to force Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to ban accounts voicing criticism of multiculturalism and the progressive left.

In a statement, Unilever said: “Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society.” The CEO of Coca-Cola, James Quincey, announced a similar boycott of social media, saying: ““There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media.” The company’s sugary products are sold mainly in third-world countries in single-use plastic packaging which is clogging up the world’s oceans, but the more abstract issue of racism is a more pressing issue, I suppose.

Perhaps in response to such corporate pressure, 29 June 2020 turned into something of a Black Monday on YouTube where a host of dissident-right personalities saw their accounts summarily deleted, without prior warning, “strikes” or ...

President Trump Approves Pentagon Plan To Move 9,500 Troops Out Of Germany

The Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff briefed President Donald Trump yesterday on plans to redeploy 9,500 troops from Germany.

“The proposal that was approved not only meets the President’s directive, it will also enhance Russian deterrence, strengthen NATO, reassure Allies, improve U.S. strategic flexibility and U.S. European Command’s operational flexibility, and take care of our service members and their families,” Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Jonathan Rath Hoffman said. “Pentagon leaders look forward to briefing this plan to the congressional defense committees in the coming weeks, followed by consultations with NATO allies on the way forward. We will be providing timely updates to potentially affected personnel, their families and communities as planning progresses.”

You Want A War? You Can't Handle A War...

BLM Rioter Opens Fire on Utah Motorist Who Refuses to Stop For Mob’s Roadblock

Attempted murder?

Footage emerged Monday night of a Black Lives Matter rioter opening fire upon a motorist who refused to stop for a roadblock the mob of rioters had set up in Provo, Utah, inching through an intersection as a group of rioters attempted to detain him.

The mask-clad man was caught on camera firing at the window of the motorist’s SUV at least twice.

A close-up shows a rioter clearly holding a semiautomatic pistol, which can be heard firing at the man’s white SUV at least twice.

The pistol is quite clearly pointed at the vehicle’s driver, potentially creating a basis for attempted murder charges against the violent criminal who opened fire. The earlier footage shows little to no real risk to the rioters as the driver inched through their illegal roadblock, and they could’ve easily just stood aside as the man drove on his way.

The incident has several similarities to an earlier Black Lives Matter shooting in Amalosa, Colorado, in which an attorney named James Marshall shot a disabled veteran in the head. Marshall would later be charged with attempted murder, although remarkably the...

The Pentagon said in a statement late Tuesday evening that it had no corroborating evidence that Russian operatives offered bounties to the Taliban for American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.

“The Department of Defense continues to evaluate intelligence that Russian GRU operatives were engaged in malign activity against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan. To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports,” said Chief Pentagon Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.

“Regardless, we always take the safety and security of our forces in Afghanistan – and around the world – most seriously and therefore continuously adopt measures to prevent harm from potential threats,” Hoffman added.

The statement came in response to a New York Times report that claimed that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The Times cited anonymous officials “briefed on the matter.”

The report claimed that the U.S. “concluded months ago” that the Russian unit had offered the bounties for successful attacks last year and that Islamist militants, or criminal elements closely associated with them, collected some bounty money and that the finding was briefed to President Donald Trump.

The report claimed that the National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, and officials developed a “menu of potential options,” but the White House had not authorized any step.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president and the vice president were never briefed on the allegations, and that there was no...