{"id":43646,"date":"2021-11-04T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43646"},"modified":"2021-11-04T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:11:32","slug":"turning-a-blind-eye-when-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43646","title":{"rendered":"Turning A Blind Eye When Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Townhall<\/a> posted an article about the protest in Washington that few Americans have heard about. It seems odd that few Americans have heard about the protest since 78 people were arrested for obstructing traffic and three of them were charged with assault of a police officer.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Leftists will point to the support for Donald Trump as the right having violated the contract and that, having done so, gave them no choice but to respond with militant resistance. The right will say that five years of violence seems like a bit of an overreaction to a guy whose biggest crime was mean tweets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no better example of this than the way the media covers right- vs. left-wing activism. A group of people waving American flags \u2013 or parents at a school board meeting! \u2013 are labeled domestic terrorists while rioters burning down buildings enjoy the Orwellian label \u201cpeaceful protesters.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hypocrisy has been sickening to watch over the last five years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most recent example is the far-left group\u2019s unprecedented\u00a0five-day\u00a0protest in DC last week \u2013 directly attacking the\u00a0Line 3 & DAPL through Minnesota<\/a>. To give their violence the air of legitimacy, the group has fatuously titled their \u201cdirect action\u201d the\u00a0People vs. Fossil Fuels, even though state courts have rightfully\u00a0ruled in favor<\/a> of the energy- and job-producing pipeline.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The violent rioters laid siege to the Department of the Interior\u2019s headquarters, demanding that Biden declare a “climate change national emergency” and end all government projects that use fossil fuels. They attempted to \u201coccupy\u201d the building, clashed with law enforcement, and sent security personnel to the emergency room. (All while doubtless tweeting about how wonderfully tolerant they are.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

All told, 78 people were arrested for obstructing traffic and three of them were charged with assault of a police officer.\u00a0Many more were doubtless guilty of similar crimes and slipped through the cracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As far of the so-called progressive left\u2019s cultural terrorism, they vandalized the Andrew Jackson statue outside of the White House. (One imagines the vandals don\u2019t know about how the Cherokee Indians\u00a0owned black slaves<\/a> before the founder of the Democrat Party sent them on the Trail of Tears, but facts are immaterial at this point.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Cult of the Woke\u2019s article of faith that pipelines are inherently evil is wrong in every way. Pipeline infrastructure is handled ethically and with as little environmental impact as possible. Transporting fuel via pipeline is\u00a0greener than with trucks and safer than with ships<\/a>. And if we\u2019re going to provide for all the social programs that the violent left demands, how will we pay for them if we cripple our commercial base?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This level of violence by radical leftists can\u2019t be tolerated, and the hypocrisy from our failing fourth estate can\u2019t be forgiven. Our social contract has been fundamentally violated, and if this level of urban warfare continues, then we won\u2019t have a society at all.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democrat party began its downhill slide when it chose to ignore the riots of 2020. Ordinary Americans did not want to see their towns burned down without any police intervention. If elections in the future are honest, they will reflect the fact that most Americans want to live in an orderly society with their property rights protected by the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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