Opening Pandora’s Box

Every movie reveals something about the culture that spawned it.

Angelo M. Codevilla who is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston University believes political violence is tacitly condoned and often openly encouraged by Democratic officeholders.

Codevilla notes, “In the 21st Century’s second decade, explicit statements by the party’s principal figures—President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to name only a few—have led their epigones in power as well as millions of followers to think and act as if conservatives were simply on a lower level of humanity and should have their faces rubbed in their own inferiority.”

“…We know that the spiral of political violence has already taken its first fateful turns and that the logic of our partisan ruling class is pushing for more,” he continued.

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

According to a published report by the Hollywood Reporter, Universal Studios employees in different departments were questioning the wisdom of making such a movie in these times.  One filmmaker with ties to Universal asked, “In light of the horrific [recent shootings] is this not the most craven, irresponsible, dangerous exploitation?”

A day after the Hollywood Reporter reported the studio was reevaluating its strategy for the film, and that ESPN had already pulled an ad, Universal took additional action. "Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country’s recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures and the filmmakers of The Hunt have temporarily paused its marketing campaign and are reviewing materials as we move forward," a spokesperson said. 

The act of rubbing our noses in our inferiority began when the owner of a Lexington, VA Red Hen restaurant refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family and asked her to leave.

In June of last year, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a crowd in California, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Last month, conservative journalist Andy Ngo was beaten by the violent political activist group Antifa in Portland, OR.  Along with cuts and bruises, Ngo suffered brain trauma for which he was hospitalized overnight.

Democrats and their dysfunctional media minions, in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso shootings are now unabashedly calling President Trump a white supremacist.  Calling him a Russian asset during their fever dream of collusion ended when former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony proved to be an exercise in futility.

Where would these degenerates get such an idea?  Answer:  Frank Figliuzzi, former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI during the Obama Administration and national security analyst for MSNBC floated a crank suspicion that President Trump’s order to fly the nation’s flags at half-staff through yesterday, August 8, to commemorate the victims of this past weekend’s mass shootings was a coded salute to Adolf Hitler.

In some twisted secret fantasy to undo the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the left appears to condone the spiraling political violence and, so it would appear, is pushing for more.

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted the names and employers of 44 San Antonio residents who donated to President Trump’s reelection campaign.  In doing so, Castro targeted American citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights.  He has refused to disavow his actions.

When I can’t wear a red baseball cap with the logo of Folds of Honor emblazoned across the front without being challenged while at the grocery store or the gas station, the hate the left has for “deplorables” is a sure sign that something wicked this way comes.

Unabomber Chic and the Low Rent Domestic Terrorist

Unabomber then and now

Remember the Unabomber? That weird, reclusive domestic terrorist guy holed up in his cabin with nothing but a copy of Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance" and a box of crazy flakes, as he plotted which of his fellow citizens he had to kill in order to save Mother Gaia.  While he was out saving the environment through better bombing, he wore a mask. Even though he was nuttier than squirrel poop about the environment, he didn't want to get caught!

I noticed a certain fashion sense that Ted Kaczynski shared with many of the people we find in our streets today, on the avant-garde of protests, as opposed to American protesters in years past. When I started writing this, I was just going to highlight the differences between the Civil Rights marches of the sixties, with marchers in coats and ties, holding America flags (right side up), not wearing masks to hide who they were, and contrast them with the low rent domestic terrorists prowling the streets today.

When Milo Yiannopoulos was denied the opportunity to speak at UC Berkeley, it might have been dismissed as a unique occurrence,  the assaults, the vandalism, setting fires and rioting in the streets, but since then

A Modest Proposal Regarding Antifa*

*with apologies to Jonathan Swift
 

We all know that the vicious hooligans who call themselves "Antifa", aside from having virtually no fashion style, or in all truth, no discernible intellectual ability, tend to dress in all black: black hoodie, mask, sunglasses, black slacks, black hearts...which makes it somewhat difficult to identify the perpetrator when one of these mindless cattle temporarily leaves the herd and attacks someone, typically, for no valid reason.

The similarity of dress enables their cowardly retreat from taking responsibility for their actions, allowing them to hide in the crowd. I'd like to suggest that the police add another tune to their repertoire of crowd control: the paint ball gun.

Designate one or more officers to scan the crowds for signs of trouble. If they see someone acting out and have a clear shot - mark them. Maybe use that indelible dye they put in dye packs to deter bank robbers?** Send out a spotter with them to make sure the intended target alone is hit and there is no collateral damage. This will help police positively identify the lawbreaker to be taken into custody. They could even change the color of dye with each engagement, in case Antifa were to add their own paint ball splatters to try to create confusion.

From personal experience, I can tell you that getting hit with a paintball can both be painful and leave a mark. But we know from the infamous "pepper ball" incident, that Antifa is willing to make the sacrifice to take one for the team if necessary.

We should let them.

**Perhaps even some dye pack "grenades"? Toss them into an unruly crowd and see how they like getting their trendy black hoodies and Yeezys dyed to a more tranquil, peaceful, hippie tie-dye motif?

Update: A commenter over at Watcher of Weasels suggested adding microscopic tags to the paint balls, to "make it less subject to confusion, and you wouldn't run out of codes nearly as quickly as you run out of colors." Great idea!

The Greatest Degeneration Vs The Greatest Generation

Pictured:  World War II veteran Donald Napier views a wreath near the European Campaign section of the World War II Memorial with Photoshopped™ image of Antifa extremist

Let me apologize up front if I ramble a bit on a subject so abhorrent to me.

Following President Trump’s press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday intended to inform the media about the President’s infrastructure executive order, reporters began to pepper him with combative, hysterical questions:

Do you think that what you call the alt-left is the same as neo-Nazis?

Does the statue of Robert E. Lee stay up?

Are you against the Confederacy?

How concerned are you about race relations in America and do you think things have gotten worse or better since you took office?

Mr. President, are you putting what you are calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?

You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides?

The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest —

What do you think needs to be done to overcome the racial divides in this country?

Mr. Trump made the mistake of claiming, “there is blame on both sides.”  Some in the media declared his statement was “offering aid and comfort to racists and extremists.”

As Daniel Payne so succinctly said, “We are lurching from one shrieking, insane media episode to the next.  And it is wearing on all of us, and weakening the bonds of fellowship between common Americans.”

Two journos went a step further equating Antifa, radical left-wing thugs and self-described anarchists who heave urine and feces-filled balloons, attack the defenseless and attack women with Americans belonging to the Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy to defeat the evil menace of Nazism.

The only conclusion one can logically arrive at is the press poodles are resistant to admitting Antifa is violent because they support it.

Daniel Greenfield noted, “Extremists want to eliminate the consensus of civil society. They want to destroy the idea that there’s any solution except violence through confrontations that show the helplessness of civil society.”

Watching 'Saving Private Ryan,' a movie about a group of very aggressive alt-left protesters invading a beach without a permit.

— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) August 16, 2017

Alt-left, violently coming at the alt-right, circa 1944. pic.twitter.com/K9J9MoXvX0

— Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) August 15, 2017

On Fox’s noonday program, Outnumbered co-host Melissa Francis, broke down in tears over her fear of honestly discussing the chaos in Charlottesville.  “I am so uncomfortable having this conversation.  I know what’s in my heart and I know that I don’t think anyone is different, better or worse based on the color of their skin,” Francis said, wiping away tears. “But I feel like there is nothing any of us can say right now without being judged.”

Francis choked up responding to comments by Fox’s Juan Williams and Marie Harf suggesting that Trump was defending Nazis and KKK members when he said counter-protestors shared blame for the fighting.

BAHAHAHAH look at Fox News' @MelissaAFrancis crying because her co-host wouldn't agree that there were good Nazis. pic.twitter.com/EI4auUAXbG

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) August 16, 2017

Progressive liberal protesters are increasingly clamoring for the removal of statues and monuments honoring Confederate soldiers and leaders.  What’s next?  The Jefferson Memorial?  The Washington Monument?  The Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio De Janiero?  Bank ATMs which dispense dollar bills honoring a slave owner?

Who needs education when we have the new greatest generation in Antifa? https://t.co/s11lmhCHFF

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 17, 2017

So they defaced a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who was clearly against slavery? Some of y'all aren't educated. pic.twitter.com/bc2BDEPMXm

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) August 17, 2017

In George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” a quote from one of Orwell’s characters warns how “every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.  And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.  History has stopped.”