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This Is What Must Be Done To Put An End To The Left-Wing Terrorism Epidemic

We are well past the point where the federal government should take decisive action to shut down every single one of these organizations.

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This Is What Must Be Done To Put An End To The Left-Wing Terrorism Epidemic
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Imagine that Kamala Harris had won the last election. In other words, imagine that the same Democrats who ran the Biden administration — the operatives who hunted down the January 6 defendants, who wrote Biden’s speeches declaring that “MAGA Republicans” are the greatest terror threat in the entire country, who launched criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump and his senior advisors — are still in power.

Now imagine that a right-wing radical shoots and kills one of the most influential liberals in the country on live TV. Imagine that tens of thousands of other conservatives — airline pilots, teachers, politicians, everyone — shamelessly celebrate the assassination and openly call for more of them. Now imagine that, in the same week, yet another right-winger shoots up a country club while shouting “MAGA,” and another right-winger shoots up a news station and leaves behind a manifesto complaining about liberal bias in the media. Then imagine that a Trump supporter plants a bomb underneath one of MSNBC’s broadcast vans. Now imagine that a week after all of those attacks, a conservative sniper perched on a rooftop fires into a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing or injuring multiple people. And imagine that this Planned Parenthood attack was just the latest in a string of them, stretching back several months.

In this scenario, is there any doubt how Democrats would respond?

Is there any doubt that they would wage a full-scale war on conservatives and have people like me frog-marched in front of cameras in handcuffs and leg irons?

Is there any doubt that they would declare martial law and label all right-wing expression incitement?

Is there any doubt that they would be rounding up conservatives by the busload and shipping us to Gitmo?

Is there any doubt that they would have Fox News and every other conservative media company shut down, and its executives arrested or sued into bankruptcy?

I asked this question yesterday on social media. It generated a lot of reaction. Will Cain mentioned it on his show on Fox News. But actually, this hypothetical doesn’t go nearly far enough in describing the extent of the left-wing terror campaign that’s underway in this country. So let’s go through a lengthy — but still not exhaustive — summary of some recent attacks by left-wing criminals, focusing solely on attacks on ICE. There have been so many of these attacks that they’re almost impossible to keep track of. It’s a staggering number. So we’ll focus on attacks that took place in just the last four months.

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On June 6, in Los Angeles, hundreds of rioters sprayed graffiti on a federal court building and hurled “chunks of broken concrete toward officers.” Border Patrol officers were pelted with rocks and cement. Per the DOJ’s website, more than a thousand rioters surrounded a DHS branch building, preventing detainees from being processed. One ICE agent was injured when a rock hit the windshield of his vehicle. One man threw a Molotov cocktail at officers, injuring three deputies. Eventually, as we all remember, the National Guard was called in.

On June 18, hundreds of rioters surrounded an ICE office in South Portland, which is a hotbed of Antifa terrorism. They spent a week targeting the building with bricks, glass bottles, and mortar fireworks. They weren’t forcibly dispersed at any point. It was a re-run of 2020, when they besieged courthouses. In this case, they blocked government vehicles attempting to exit the ICE office. Several rioters assaulted law enforcement, including by shining a laser pointer in an officer’s eye, causing temporary blindness. A day later, a rioter tried to drill plywood doors onto the ICE office, to trap officers inside.

That same day, in a separate attack, an illegal alien threw an ICE agent to the ground, knocked her head into the pavement, and tore off her body armor.

Credit: @MrAndyNgo/X.com

A week later, on June 25, as reported by Andy Ngo, Antifa zip-tied and barricaded the building and attempted to set the place on fire — while dozens of agents were inside.

Then on July 4, more than a dozen Antifa terrorists — carrying body armor, radios, and firearms — launched an attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. They used fireworks as a distraction and opened fire from the woods across the street. One officer was shot in the neck, but survived. More than 20 rounds were fired.

Three days later, a gunman shot a police officer in the leg at the entrance of a Border Patrol annex in McAllen, Texas. One Border Patrol officer and one Border Patrol employee were injured as well.

Meanwhile, as all this is going on, ICE agents are being doxxed. Their home addresses are being posted on Antifa websites. In one case, trash was dumped on an officer’s front lawn. And on July 14, a congressman named Salud Carbaja” joined a mob that attacked immigration authorities as they served a search warrant at a marijuana facility. According to DHS, the lawmaker “doxxed an ICE employee, who was subsequently attacked by rioters and sent to the emergency room.” 

On July 31st, two aliens tried to ram a car into ICE officers in Colorado. 

On August 2nd, a rioter threw a rock through the window of an ICE office in Yakima, Washington. They also set a fire on the premises. 

Credit: DHS

Credit: DHS

Then on August 20, anti-ICE rioters in San Francisco targeted four federal agents with pepper spray, slashed the tire of a government vehicle, and threatened to stab a law enforcement official.

Five days later, a suspect made bomb threats against an ICE facility in Dallas. And then, four days after that, a woman tried to run over a Border Patrol agent who was arresting illegal aliens in Maine.

That brings us to September 12, when an illegal alien dragged an ICE officer with his car, causing serious injuries. Two days later, an illegal alien drove his car into an ICE officer, before hitting an oncoming car driven by a bystander.

Then shortly afterwards, rioters in Broadview, Illinois, threw rocks at police, obstructed vehicles attempting to enter the ICE facility, and launched mortar fireworks at officers. I want you to see how the local ABC affiliate covered this attack, and the response by ICE, at some length. This is important to see. The ABC affiliate goes out of its way to portray ICE as a violent aggressor here, even though they admit that the rioters were committing federal crimes in an attempt to violently interfere with the officers. This is how these kinds of attacks are covered. Watch:

Credit: ABC 7 Chicago/YouTube.com

Yes, the people inside the ICE facility committed federal crimes. That’s why they’re not free to leave. But he’s wrong when he says that they don’t get to “go home.” In fact, the entire purpose of ICE is to send these people home. That’s kind of the reason for the agency’s existence.

That whole report is a nauseating and very transparent piece of political propaganda. And it’s how pretty much every network is covering ICE. They go out of their way to make excuses for the rioters who are surrounding federal buildings and attacking law enforcement. And then, when ICE launches tear gas in response, they pretend it’s some highly disproportionate use of force. They accuse the officers of “laughing” — although strangely enough, they never captured that on film. They downplay the obvious acts of terrorism that are captured on film, and portray the use of non-lethal crowd control munitions as some kind of human rights violation. The lies are as overt as they could possibly be. And the media endorses these lies. They are as anti-American as the Antifa communists. They’re doing it because they want to encourage more acts of violence. And they know that their actions are very likely to result in more acts of violence. And that’s going to be an important point, in a moment.

But for now, let’s get back to the timeline. On September 23, as reported by Katie Daviscourt, Antifa surrounded a federal building in Eugene, Oregon, in the middle of the day. They pounded on the walls, preventing employees from leaving. 

Credit: @KatieDaviscourt/X.com

As you can see, they’re clearly trying to intimidate everyone inside the building. This went on for hours. It took several hours for authorities to begin making arrests. But even then, they didn’t haul everyone away in handcuffs. They made targeted arrests, probably because they didn’t have the manpower to do anything else. This isn’t a deterrent. It’s not effective. And Antifa knows it. So the attacks have continued.

Yesterday, a rooftop sniper with a history of communist posts on social media opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, in yet another act of left-wing terrorism. He allegedly wrote the word “anti-ICE” on his ammunition. He reportedly hated Donald Trump. But when he opened fire, he apparently missed his targets, and ended up hitting illegal aliens instead.

Watch:

Credit: Fox 4 Dallas/YouTube.com

By my count, this is the fourth act of left-wing terrorism in just the past year, in which the shooter has written left-wing messaging on the bullets. Luigi Mangione did it. The trans terrorist who shot up that Christian church did it. Charlie Kirk’s assassin did it. And now this ICE shooter did it. We have a very well-established M.O. here. And in these cases — and many others — the targets have been vilified by left-wing organizations and social media platforms, which openly encourage precisely this kind of violence. And that’s not even getting into all of the other attacks by left-wing terrorists that don’t involve ICE, including the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, the murder of those two embassy staffers, the arson attack in the park in Colorado, and so on. We could spend the next hour listing all of the left-wing attacks in this country in just the past year.

We are well past the point where the federal government should take decisive action to shut down every single one of these organizations and platforms. Donald Trump has declared Antifa a domestic terrorist group. But so far, the government isn’t actually treating these left-wing militants as terrorists. Was that a symbolic designation or a meaningful one? If it was meaningful, why is Antifa allowed to surround a federal building for even one second? Why isn’t every single one of these militants — including that lying pastor — in solitary confinement, right now?

And for that matter, why are websites like Reddit allowed to openly encourage acts of political violence? Pretty much the whole site is like this. On Reddit, 99% of the content about ICE involves either a flagrant smear about the organization — saying they’re kidnapping babies or whatever — or it’s an explicit incitement to violence.

For example, this is one of the most popular stories on Reddit this week. It’s from NBC News.

This was the headline.

Credit: NBC News

Credit: NBC News

“ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says.” 

Well, that sounds pretty bad. But it wasn’t remotely true. NBC now admits that. They’ve changed the headline to read, “Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father.” And they admit, in the correction, that they had “mischaracterized” what ICE was doing.

But of course, they knew what they were doing. They knew that the illegal alien — who had prior arrests for domestic abuse and strangulation — had abandoned his own child in his car. They know that ICE saved that child. But they reported a lie anyway, because they knew it would cause more violence. And it would cause more left-wing terrorists on Reddit to demand more violence, which they did. 

Here’s just a sampling of what I’m talking about. An account on X collected many of these:

Credit: @kidzpsychrn/Reddit.com/X.com

Credit: @kidzpsychrn/Reddit.com/X.com

Credit: @kidzpsychrn/Reddit.com/X.com

Credit: @kidzpsychrn/Reddit.com/X.com

Each one of these sentences is a separate post on Reddit. “People need to start blasting. Shoot first. Ask later. Those are kidnappers. Take em out. They pushed us to the point of violence. Those agents should be handcuffed behind their backs and given a 10 second head start. They’ve made the first shots, now it’s time to return the favor. Let’s escalate. Smoke the motherf—-. They shot first. Now it’s open season on ICE.”

Again, all of those are separate comments. They’re all highly upvoted, meaning they’re popular with the community.

This is not legitimate political discourse. None of these people are advancing a political opinion. These are actual, direct threats of violence. They qualify as “incitement” under the law. In this country, the freedom of speech does not include the right to call for violence, with the intent of causing imminent violence, if that statement is indeed likely to cause imminent violence. That’s where the line is. And as we’ve seen, very clearly, Leftists have crossed this line repeatedly. Reddit will ban virtually all conservative speech, no matter how tame. But they’ll tolerate criminal activity like this. That needs to end.

So does federal funding for most universities, including Georgetown. This is an actual sign that’s currently hanging outside several dorms at Georgetown:

Credit: @AndrewKolvet/X.com

Credit: @AndrewKolvet/X.com

It reads, “Hey Fascist, Catch! The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.” 

So they’re quoting the message that Charlie Kirk’s murderer used on his bullet. And then they’re directing students to join something called the John Brown Gun Club, which is a communist group that’s popular with Antifa. If you follow the QR code on that flyer, here’s what you’ll see.

Screenshot/iPhone

Screenshot/iPhone

It takes you to a website that reads, “We’re building a community that’s done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters. If you want to make a real change in your community, let us know below.”

Again, this is not lawful speech. They are openly recruiting assassins on the campus of a major American university — one that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. This is incitement. Everyone involved in producing this flyer, and this organization — as well as Georgetown — must be held accountable for it. We need to see arrests.

It is not legal, in this country, to post a flyer that reads, “Now hiring — people who want to kill Republicans.” And that’s effectively what this sign is. A threat of violence doesn’t literally have to be, “We’re going to kill you.” If you send a conservative a note, with a quote from Charlie Kirk’s assassin, and you tell them that the time for debate is over, and that you’re joining a socialist gun club — that’s a threat. It’s a threat to every conservative at Georgetown. And the FBI needs to act accordingly.

But as of now, nothing’s been done. Georgetown didn’t even take the flyer down. Why would they? Their administrators presumably endorse political violence too. So does the national Democratic Party. Just the other day, Gavin Newsom declared that ICE is “authoritarian” and that the Trump administration is an illegitimate government that’s going to suspend elections in this country. Democrats want more national violence, just as we saw in 2020. And they’re getting it.

If we still want to have a First Amendment, there needs to be a full-scale crackdown on left-wing radicals before this terror campaign progresses any further. If the FBI could round up grandmothers in Alaska who walked around the Capitol building on January 6, and if they could concoct a fake sting operation to catch random hobos who supposedly wanted to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, then they can find every single one of the people posting these death threats and flyers. Executive orders aren’t cutting it anymore.

These people have declared war on the United States. Therefore, the United States should declare war on them. Every militant who commits, facilitates, funds, coordinates, or incites political violence must be treated exactly as we would treat any American who did any of that for ISIS or Al Qaeda. They are contributing material support to a terrorist enterprise. They are providing aid and comfort to the enemy. They should be treated accordingly.

And yes, I’m well aware that the word “incitement” gets tossed around to justify unconstitutional crackdowns on speech all the time. Most of the time, when speech is labeled “incitement,” it’s bogus. I’ve been accused of “incitement” for stating basic facts about biology. But incitement is a real thing. The fact that the Left has misused the term, endlessly and maliciously, does not neutralize the concept of incitement. And it doesn’t mean we can’t prosecute it. There’s legal precedent on this. There are laws on the books. We should use them.

When you go around claiming that ICE agents are Gestapo, that they’re kidnapping innocent autistic children, and that it’s time to “start blasting,” you are openly inviting and encouraging violence. When you call your opponents Nazis, when you casually accuse them of “genocide,” when you accuse them of trying to bring back Jim Crow or slavery, you are inviting and encouraging violence. When you celebrate and justify assassinations, and then provide a list of people who should be “next” — as they did with Charlie and the health care executive — you are inviting and encouraging violence. When you post a flyer on a college campus, telling people to join your militant firearms organization because debate doesn’t work anymore, and you cite the words of a political assassin, you are inviting and encouraging violence.

Some of the examples I just gave probably don’t cross the line into legal incitement. Some of them do. But they are all intended to lay the groundwork for violence. They should all be loudly condemned. And whatever qualifies as legal incitement should be prosecuted as such.

To be clear, I’m not even advocating for Republicans to do everything that Democrats would do if the roles were reversed. Yes, they would haul every Republican directly into a gulag if they had the opportunity, whether or not they made any threats. There’s no question about it. They would throw the rules out, chuck the Constitution into a wood chipper, and ruthlessly persecute every single one of us, if conservatives engaged in the kind of systematic campaign of political terrorism that the Left is currently conducting. But that doesn’t mean we should do the same. I believe in the rule of law. I don’t want anyone to be persecuted.

What I do want — what we all want — is for the Trump Administration to do absolutely everything legally in its power to prosecute and punish every Leftist responsible for committing, coordinating, funding, or inciting this epidemic of political violence. I want them to actually treat Antifa like the terrorist organization that it is, and handle its adherents and affiliates the same way we handle ISIS and Al Qaeda. Don’t shy away from prosecuting terrorists and criminals who are obviously inciting violence. Now is the time. At this rate, we can’t go two days without another left-wing terrorist attack. This is unsustainable by any metric. Lives hang in the balance. We must act. Crush the terrorists. Do it now. There’s no more time to waste.

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