On Tuesday, Democratic senators again whitewashed violent antifa rioters as “peaceful protesters,” demonizing President Donald Trump for “bad-faith nonsense” for daring to speak the truth about the violence of the rioters.
“What we’ve seen in Portland are peaceful protesters in need of protection from federal officers,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said at a Senate hearing on “Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence” hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). She argued that any mention of the antifa violence plays into a nefarious Trump narrative aiming to dismiss protesters.
“President Trump is deliberately trying to undermine the massive protests for racial justice by dismissing them as anarchists and antifa,” Hirono insisted. She condemned Trump for sending in federal law enforcement “outfitted as if for war.”
“To justify this unnecessary deployment of federal officers, President Trump and his administration have repeatedly portrayed portland protesters as violent anarchists and members of antifa. But in the past four weeks, what we have actually seen are federal agents beating up on protesters,” the Democrat insisted.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) also insisted that the violent mobs in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and elsewhere were truly peaceful protesters.
“This argument that Americans exercising their right to peaceful protest are anarchists, terrorists, and agitators is bad-faith nonsense,” Wyden declared. “The president and his enablers who are calling peaceful protesters anarchists and terrorists and sending para-military forces.”
He called “talk about leftist anarchy” completely “baseless.”
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) proved slightly more reasonable. He admitted that some of the protests have also involved violent attacks and condemned the “few” behind it. Yet he argued that “Trump’s forces did not arrest the violent few, they attacked the peaceful many.”
He spread a false narrative about Trump’s use of federal agents. The Trump administration sent in federal officers following more than a month of violent attacks on the federal courthouse. Last week, after Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.) agreed to send Oregon State Police to defend the federal courthouse, most of the federal troops withdrew.
Yet Merkley suggested that Trump had withdrawn the federal officers in shame after claims of law enforcement abuse. “After national coverage of these tactics, President Trump retreated, withdrawing his federal agents from Portland. The protests since have been peaceful celebrations focused on the message of the BLM movement,” he said.
After the federal officers left, however, the violence and threats against police continued, while the violence did abate somewhat.
Rioters appear to have stopped firing mortar fireworks at the federal courthouse, but they continued to set fires near the courthouse. On Thursday night, rioters burned a severed pig’s head with a police hat on it. On Friday night, they torched Bibles in a bonfire near the federal courthouse.
Later in the hearing, Cruz asked acting DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli whether the riots had ceased following the withdrawal of many federal troops.
“As I noted, last night, the local police declared a riot,” Cuccinelli replied.
Antifa is a Communist organization. They’ve admitted to it. They’ve also admitted that their goal is overthrow our government and replace with a Marxist one. The Communist Revolutionary Party endorsed Biden. Their goals are the same as Antifa.
The dems defend Antifa. The conclusion as to what the dems really are is obvious.
And just what do t he Democrats think of the Tea Party or those in Virginia protesting against anymore Gun Control the Dirty Democrats want to pass with their jerk Governor Northam? Yes the Liberal Democrats are that Stupid
Who are you gonna believe? The Democrats or your own eyes as you watch cities burn?
The Democrats have to pretend the protests are “peaceful” because if the majority of Americans ever accept that the protests are NOT peaceful, Bargain Basement Joe will lose by a record margin.
Saint Louis Police Detective REFUSED TO SIGN Soros Funded Prosecutor’s Probable Cause Document Against McCloskeys partly because she described those protesters as “peaceful,” too.
Because Sergeant Curtis Burgdorf didn’t sign these probable cause papers, the warrant to confiscate the guns was ILLEGAL.
Sergeant Burgdorf had documented numerous threats directed towards the McCloskeys by the Black Lives Matter trespassing rioters, including waving loaded pistol magazines at the couple and warning that they would be “coming back” to the residence.
This is just another brick in the Soros’ prosecutor’s wall, she also ordered forensics experts to reassemble Patricia McCloskey’s pistol from its original state as a non-functional courtroom prop to a functional firearm.
Now Soros is pumping another $116,000 into Gardener’s re-election campaign, way more than what other candidates for this prosecutor’s job will be able to raise.
Voters are taking notice. The Dems will lose many Senate and House seats in November over this. It was their last stand, and we all saw what their vision for America is: Classic Marxism.
You can’t have America without the Law. You can’t have Laws without Law enforcement. This has always been a ploy to take down our system of government.
That was because the police cleared the terrorists out of the park across from the courthouse, not because federal officers left; they hadn’t left at that point.
Democrats are protecting their Sturmabteilung by simply telling us left wing violence isn’t violence. Like they told us a terrible economy was a boom, we are supposed to ignore reality and believe the fairy tales.
@retire05:
Keep in mind many leftists rely on leftist propaganda for their “news” and don’t even see the violence other than the tail end where law enforcement has to be called out to put the riots down. Hamas tactics. Terrorists.
@Deplorable Me:
Just as Weather Underground was a terrorist organization, so is Antifa/BLM terrorist organizations. BLM is not committing extortion in Kentucky. RICO clearly covers that type of crime. One of the BLM leaders has clearly stated that their models are the Weather Underground and the Nation of Islam.
The Democrats are not going to denounce their own voters, no matter how violent those voters get. According to San Fran Nan “people are going to do what people are going to do.” What the Democrats don’t understand is that eventually they will be the ones the alligator eats, be it last or mid-riots. Watch how quickly the Democrats turn on those two organizations if one of their homes is sprayed with BLM/Communist Hammer and Sycle.
@retire05: Indeed, their goal isn’t socialism, it’s communism and THEY want control. Like the German industrialists, Democrat elitists think they can control, use and discard ANTIFA/BLM. They are in for a rude awakening. The attacks on Democrat leaders in the areas where they give ANTIFA/BLM free rein should be a clue… but they are too damned arrogant to be afraid.