An
exceedingly dear friend of mine in the States, from whom I am clearly
at distinctly opposite perspectives politically, recently posted the
following – presumably right after Charlottesville:
"I've
been wondering...If any of these neo-nazi, white supremacists, were
caught in a burning building, and a firefighter who was a person of
color came rushing in to save their lives, would they refuse their
hand? Just wondering..."
I have
to take issue with this by its very premise, as it is based on serious fallacies fed by clichés which don't apply. To
begin with, who set that proverbial burning building on fire in the
first place? Not some "neo-nazi" and not some "white-supremacist" – and by no stretch of the imagination some
Trump voter. And to pointedly take this proverbial image by the
horns, I will draw on my own real-world observations and experiences
here in Berlin, as with throughout Western Germany, as with all of
Western EUrope, as with the many street confrontations and practices
(and having carefully observed a large volume of video footage and
analysis, using a wide spectrum of sources – both mainstream and
alternative), and call the criminal pyromaniac by name: the "Anti"fa
and its Black Bloc stormtroopers.
I
happen to know who and what is certifiably right-extremist in Germany
– and they are politically speaking either insignificant or
irrelevant or both. Not so the extreme left. Whereas the former are
constantly for that reason abetted and ignored by virtue of being under
control by the authorites of State, the latter are subsidized,
encouraged, provided for by legislators and foundations well-funded
at the highest echelons – and assured no serious problem on the part
of police action, who are not necessarily stood down as in the States
but are cut back in staff, exhausted, hampered – and effectively
castrated. So instead of having the balls ever to really confront real neo-nazis, I mean hard-core right-extremist thugs, the massive thuggery of "Anti"fa is active in terrorism toward the one liberal-conservative party which poses an opposition to the system and to Merkel's ruling policies of devstation: the AfD, hardly what you could call fascist or extremist by any stretch of the imagination (just by the Left's).
What
shall we reflect on the legally registered pro-Trump rally where a
teenager among them was brutally set upon by several attackers from
this mob of financed thugs (in Germany they are literally subsidized
by parties sitting in the Bundestag or in the Berlin Senate –
namely the SPD, The Left, and The Greens, and at least passively
abetted – until now, with elections in three weeks – by the
CDU/CSU), and when the lad's own father moved to protect his son from
certain injury if not death, of which the American "Anti"fa has
proven closely capable, that father found himself under a hail of
blows. They both got out of there within an inch of their lives.
What
shall we reflect on the legally registered pro-Trump rally where an "Anti"fa peacemaker illegally employing a homemade blowtorch
(spraycan with flame) in the face of a Trump supporter, was in turn –
and only then – met with the heat his intended victim happened to
be packing, albeit this latter without incurring injuries or death.
Like it or not, one has the right under law to defensively pack heat,
and this was pulled in self-defense. The one with the pistol was
duly charged – the typically concealed and anonymous
Warrior-of-Tolerance was not.
Who was
that unsuspecting "white supremacist" photo-journalist I saw (who
was in the habit of quietly and objectively filming street events
without comment) getting jumped, slugged, and knocked down – and
further kicked – by several of these Soros-Wunderkinder and Social
Justice Wannabes? How shall I reflect on him having his life
literally saved by a black dude with dreadlocks who threw himself
onto him to protect him from the kicks and blows which only stopped
because no one would continue with the black guy being in the way
like that! Did this "person of color" stop and ask himself
whether the photographer, who suffered injuries to his limbs and
kidneys, was a "neo-nazi"? The rescued victim, during a brief
interview later on, told of trying to locate his rescuer to thank him
and break bread with him.
Let us
reflect for a moment on the fact that the districts of Houston most
affected by Harvey's flooding were statistically not Trump voters at
all – but predominantly Hillary voters. The point of that being,
to reflect on the compassion and the empathy of the Florida broadcast
journalist who'd Tweeted with a strange relish about the "karma"
of having voted for Trump (!) now visiting Texas with a vengeance.
This popularized abuse of the term "karma" is why I have
stopped ever using the word myself, just as I have reasons for
thoroughly rejecting the Democratic Party as I'd always rejected the
Republican. Until this last Presidential election. Even the
broadcaster's own employer found this virally-gone Tweet way over the
top, and duly fired him. Just as even some voices from the
traditional Left are finally grasping and confronting the monster
unleashed by their own bankrupt ideology, an ideology which I'd
thought I'd shared for decades.
Speaking
of floods and "Anti"fa, let me reflect here on Idumea, where
refugees – bona fide according to international statutes or merely
posed as such – were whipped into a frenzy of "getting out" of
Greece, which by international and EU convention was where they
should have stayed after leaving Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan. They
were herded by NGO-supported Greens and “Anti“fa to take any risk
to just make it to Merkel's Germany(!) by a forced and visibly
dangerous crossing of river rapids where some (children and mothers)
met their deaths, to be broadcast on German mainstream news for the
cheapest maudlin propaganda, the real circumstances coming out only
later by investigation and witness reports.
Apropos
picking and choosing who rescues and who gets rescued: I will end by
reflecting further in this vein, on the Eastern German flooding (we
have those here every couple years or so, due to river banks
overflowing) which occurred in recent weeks – here as well you had
images resembling Houston, with houses buried in waters up to their
roofs, on which sat stranded house owners. And along came actual "Anti"fa rescue boats, which were later reported by those
affected, as having picked up people from those roofs – only to
return them to those very roofs the moment they sized up the rescuee
to be "too right-wing" in appearance. Or certainly "too
German" for their taste.
I just
came across the following message posted on Facebook – after
previewing two or three videos which seriously tackled what I am
addressing here, I found it with its one single statement,
sufficient:
"Thousands
of black flood victims in Texas have been rescued by 'rednecks' – NOT by
#blacklivesmatter and NOT by #ANTIFA."
