The anniversary of 9/11 was particularly sad on Friday because currently we are not united against the maniacs who employ terrorism against our country. The party aligned with them may even prevail in the November elections. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who escaped Islam at great risk to her life and is now an American citizen, lists a few of the parallels between al Qaeda and Black Lives Matter/Antifa:

The adherents of each constantly pursue ideological purity, certain of their own rectitude. Neither Islamists nor the Woke will engage in debate; both prefer indoctrination of the submissive and damnation of those who resist.

That damnation can take the form of beheading in countries controlled by Islamists, whereas it manifests itself in “cancelation” in our own country, which is thankfully still a soft tyranny for now, but the intent and effect are the same.

Differences between Islamic and leftist radicals are often cosmetic:

Islamists shout “Allahu Akbar” and “Death to America”; the Woke chant “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe.” Islamists pray to Mecca; the Woke take the knee.

Imagine if, in September of 2001, instead of standing respectfully for the national anthem, grotesquely overpaid athletes had knelt toward Mecca and touched their foreheads to the grass to signify obeisance to terrorists. That is the equivalent of the pregame theatrics we are currently subjected to as our country is again under siege.

Islam forbids “blasphemy”; leftists, “hate speech.” Only the context is different, not the meaning. The same goes for the terms “Islamophobia” and “racism.”

Islamic and woke radicals are both fond of destroying statues, and of theatrically burning the American flag.

Both ideologies aim to tear down the existing system and replace it with utopias that always turn out to be hellish anarchies: Islamic State in Raqqa, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle. Both are collectivist: Group identity trumps the individual. Both tolerate—and often glorify—violence carried out by zealots.

The most important similarity is that their hatred of America cannot be appeased. Despite what some choose to believe, they are not angry because they are poor or oppressed.

Their motivations are ideological and they will be satisfied only with power.

That means either they win or we do. If they win, America won’t just continue to change. It will be over.

A foreign enemy might be safely ignored for a time. This is not true of domestic enemies like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and their many allies.

On a tip from Varla.

Terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation to advance political goals. That means that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization. There have been about 550 riots associated with BLM over the summer; riots are by definition violent, and BLM’s political objectives are openly stated (abolish police and prisons, cash payments based on race, etc).

It would be hard to imagine political violence — i.e., terrorism — more explicit than this:

The Michigan Republican Party headquarters in Lansing, Michigan, was reportedly vandalized Sunday night with graffiti saying “f[***] ICE, f[***] police, f[***] you,” the political party announced Monday. …

Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox is a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, according to the state party’s website.

As Cox observes,

“This vandalism is emblematic of the chaos sweeping through our nation’s Democrat-run cities, as the radical left uses criminal tactics to try and extort weak politicians into defunding the men and woman who keep us safe.”

She might have said, “emblematic of the terrorism.” Speech liberals don’t like is not really violence, but the destruction of property is.

So is the body count that has been run up during “mostly peaceful” BLM protests.

Sometimes the intimidation stops short of violence. For example, Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) was almost prevented from speaking:

Loeffler said her Republican supporters “stood up” to Black Lives Matter protesters who disrupted a campaign event. …

“Black Lives Matter rioters came in and they were protesting and trying to break it up, but we didn’t stop because, look, this is one thing that our country is built on.”

While the disruptors shouted and police refused to intervene because it was in a public park building, Loeffler’s supporters shouted her name and chanted “USA” in response.

Loeffler is especially unpopular with BLM for having introduced the “Holding Rioters Accountable Act” along with Tom Cotton (R-AR).

If the lawlessness continues to spiral out of control, Senators will be in physical danger. Rand Paul could tell you all about it.

On a tip from Rapinhoe.

Academia under leftist domination has degenerated from liberal bias to teaching flat out lies:

An adjunct NYU professor denied reports that the terrorist group Hamas beheaded babies and raped women in Israel on October 7, telling a group of students last month: “We know it’s not true.”

On the contrary, we know that the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas are real. October 7 has been called the “most well-documented massacre in history.” Even CNN has reported on these fiends systematically raping women and butchering children.

Amin Husain fed students his pro-terrorist lies at a December 5 teach-in organized by Students for Justice in Palestine at The New School and captured on video.

Husain jokes that his profile on the site Canary Mission, which documents people and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel, and Jews, “is one of the best biographies I have.”

October 7 blurred the line between sympathetic embedded journalists and actual terrorists. Likewise the line between terrorists and college professors has been blurred:

[His Canary Mission profile] continues: “Husain has claimed to have participated in the first intifada and personally visited a leader of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). He has also expressed support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and glorified its leaders, promoted other terrorists and spread hatred of Israel.”

“Everything they cite. . . is true,” Husain, 48, says at The New School event, prompting laughter from the crowd. …

Born in the West Bank, Husain has boasted in the past of taking part in the First Intifada, which led to the deaths of at least 1,000 Palestinians and more than 100 Israelis from 1987 to 1993. At a Times Square rally in 2016, he declared, “Living 18 years in Palestine, I was fighting in the first uprising, I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like.”

No doubt these are bullet points on the résumé that got him hired by NYU, where he also indoctrinates students on Black Lives Matter and decolonialism, the objective of which is to eradicate Western Civilization.

Husain’s sociopathic activities have not been limited to the Middle East:

Decolonize This Place, the group Husain founded, is famous for its disruptive tactics. In 2020, the group led an assault on the New York City subway system, encouraging followers on social media to “f[***] sh[**] up.” The protests resulted in over $100,000 in damages, including vandalized police stations and turnstiles jammed with honey and glue, according to the New York Post.

Unsurprisingly, Husain took part in Marxist street theater of Occupy Wall Street.

The federal government is not the only swamp that needs a thorough draining if the USA is to be restored to sound health. Washington takes its ideology from academia.

On tips from Jack D and Anonymous.

Hamas terrorists are more focused and sophisticated than Black Lives Matter’s mostly peaceful protesters, who still have not evolved beyond smashing windows and stealing sneakers. But the ideologies serving as a pretext for their violence are so similar, both being grounded in hatred and weaponized victimhood, that it is no surprise BLM supports the nightmarish atrocities Hamas has inflicted on Israeli civilians:

Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which represents 26 local BLM chapters across the country, issued a lengthy statement “in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

“[W]e must stand unwaveringly on the side of the oppressed,” bark the moonbats, by which they mean Hamas.

“When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense.”

Speaking of unimaginable violence, among the horrors inflicted last weekend, Palestinian terrorists paraglided into a music festival to rape and murder unsuspecting youth. Black Lives Matter celebrated the atrocity with this:

Black Lives Matter Grassroots…

…also recognized what it claims are “clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people.”

This is true regarding the thugs inflicting the violence. Both baby-beheading Islamists and allegedly oppressed Target looters are products of a welfare state that allows them to grow to adulthood without developing a sense of self-worth. Welfare breeds dysfunctional societies. Dysfunctional societies breed monsters.

For a brief moment, it seemed Europe might snatch away the welfare teat that makes possible a society that would democratically elect Hamas. But moonbattery prevailed; the flow of free money will continue, guaranteeing more dysfunction and more bloodshed.

There is no reason to believe that BLM “activists” will not do to average Americans what Hamas does to average Israelis, assuming they graduate from random looting and vandalism.

On tips from Anonymous and StephaneDumas. Hat tip: ZeroHedge.

When hyperwoke Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, we were left to wonder where the money went. Some has turned up:

According to a new database by the conservative Claremont Institute, the collapsed bank donated or pledged to donate nearly $74 million to groups related to the Black Lives Matter movement. …

Two months after racially charged riots led to the most destructive outbreak of American political upheaval in more than a century, the bank joined the chorus of corporate firms touting their commitment to so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Giving money to Black Lives Matter makes clear what the DEI duckspeak actually means. BLM is a terrorist group that caused up to $2 billion in damages to advance an ideology based on black supremacism, Marxism, sexual depravity, and the destruction of the nuclear family. Its immediate objective during the riots that Silicon Valley Bank rewarded with $73,450,000 was to abolish local police.

Despite the money vanishing in a puff of smoke, BLM was successful. Local police were not actually abolished, but defunding, demonization, and demoralization marginalized them via the Ferguson Effect. Combined with liberal control of the “justice” system, the result has been violent crime spiraling out of control. We see ever more stories like this:

That’s what the SVB wokesters bought with their $73,450,000. Oh wait, I forgot the likeminded Biden regime is predictably bailing them out. I should have said, that’s what they bought with our $73,450,000.

SVB isn’t alone. Corporations have poured a staggering $82.9 billion into Black Lives Matter.

Instead of putting its money into investments that generate wealth, the liberal establishment pays rioting scum to burn our country down in the name of radical leftism, secure in the knowledge that the Democratic Party will bail them out at public expense when they fail. No wonder the economic outlook is so bleak.

On tips from Chris Neilson, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket.

Merriam-Webster defines terror as “violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion.” That makes Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization, because it has employed many hundreds of riots and the explicit threat of more to impose a radical leftward shift in American politics. Unsurprisingly, BLM aligns itself with other terrorists who share similar objectives — i.e., Hamas:

To translate from the critical theory rhetoric into plain English, “ending settler colonialism” means eradicating racial groups they hate. This entails supporting the stated Hamas objective of ridding Israel of Jews. By now readers will have figured out for themselves what it means for Caucasians in North America.

As Fox News reports,

The announcement prompted a “thank you” tweet from the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which has for years called for an economic embargo of Israel.

“Thank you for your solidarity,” the left-wing group tweeted in response. “From Ferguson to Palestine, our struggles against racism, white supremacy and for a just world are united!”

Black Lives Matter rioters and Palestinian terrorists are fighting the same war. Consisting of savages, both could easily be crushed by the civilization they strive to destroy — if not for the fifth column. In the USA, this enemy within runs the federal government. Just as the Democratic Party sides with Black Lives Matter rioters against the police and property owners, it sides with Hamas in its war of extermination against Israel. Daniel Greenfield has explained how this alliance works, and why it was inevitable that Hamas would launch a new terror campaign against Israeli citizens soon after Biden took power.

In Congress, a growing number of Democrats are straightforward in their defense of Hamas terrorists. Examples include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, as well as Cori Bush (D-MO):

“The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected. We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma. We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period,” Bush tweeted, citing her own House floor speech on the matter.

Israel does not occupy Gaza. Being “anti-occupation” in this context means being opposed to Jews living in Israel. The “apartheid” rhetoric implies that Israel should suffer the same fate as South Africa, a First World country that was reduced to poverty and tyranny. This is to be accomplished by demographic warfare, flooding the country with Arabs the way the Biden Regime has been flooding the USA with vast numbers of needy Third Worlders from Central America.

Meanwhile, the war in Israel continues to spread in the USA. The pogrom we saw in Los Angeles is also occurring across the country in New York:

There is no moral equivalence between Israel and the terrorists laying siege to it — or between patriotic Americans and Black Lives Matter supporters. We are not fighting naive kooks when we push back against Democrats. We are fighting evil.

On tips from Bluto, TCS III, and ABC of the ANC.

It didn’t seem likely that self-described Marxist Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors would settle for her pricey new home near Malibu as her primary residence. Sure enough:

As [riots] broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate-buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.

Bernie Sanders, eat your heart out.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent. …

“People who buy at the Albany are buying their fourth or fifth home,” said a resort worker who did not want to be identified. “This is not a second-home residence. It’s extremely high-end, and people are coming here for complete and total privacy.”

All that money woke corporations ostentatiously shovel at Black Lives Matter had to go somewhere. It certainly isn’t going to improve the lives of black people — with the exception of the ones running the scam.

It used to be that you got rich in this country by making things. Now, you get rich by breaking things.

In addition to the generous cut she presumably receives from BLM donations, Cullors has capitalized on her divisive moonbattery with the book When They Call You a Terrorist. Also,

In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.

Poor marginalized Patrisse. The heart bleeds.

It’s also not clear how much Khan-Cullors makes in salary as one of the leaders of the movement, since its finances are split among both non-profit and for-profit entities and difficult to trace.

If she is smart enough to muddy the finances, no doubt she takes care not to buy properties in the sort of neighborhoods her followers burn down.

On tips from Henry, ABC of the ANC, and Bluto.

2020 was annus horribilis for most of us, but it was a great year for Black Lives Matter, especially in Los Angeles, which this radical movement is rapidly transforming into another Detroit:

Daily Wire sums up some of BLM-LA’s deleterious accomplishments:

Media and Hollywood celebrities amplified BLM-LA’s signal, and organizers channeled that momentum toward successful grassroots efforts to oust D.A. [Jackie] Lacey…

Lacie was replaced by demented pro-criminal DA George Gascon.

More wins for the bad guys:

L.A. City Council agreed to slash the [LAPD]’s budget by $150 million. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti first announced the idea after BLM-LA led a massive demonstration outside of his residence on June 2.

Intimidation works in the sort of country this is becoming. At least it does on people who are sympathetic to the intimidators.

The L.A. Board of Education quickly followed suit, reducing the L.A. School Police Department’s budget by 35%, which equated to a $25 million cut. BLM-LA had spent more than five years organizing students, parents, and teachers against the district’s police force, which is tasked with protecting more than 600,000 students enrolled in the nation’s second-largest public education system.

BLM also went after the LA County Sheriff’s Department, with the ballot proposal Measure J:

Its passage requires at least 10% of the county’s general fund be appropriated to community programs and alternatives to incarceration, but Sheriff Alex Villanueva and police unions said it would defund public safety. LASD operates the nation’s largest jail system.

Leftists have already managed to largely empty neighboring Orange County Sheriff’s Department jails onto the streets.

Despite Garcetti’s willingness to cave to outrageous demands by BLM terrorists, BLM-LA’s lead community organizer Melina Abdullah claims that her organization blocked him from a Biden cabinet position. If so, this may be the first good thing ever to come of Black Lives Matter.

She also noted a series of Black LA Demands related to the COVID-19 pandemic as another important achievement from 2020, along with the formation of BLM Grassroots, which was established to aid local chapters’ organizational needs.

Alarmingly, BLM racists aren’t the only ones to racialize the coronavirus response.

Lastly, Abdullah recognized BLM-LA’s annual Black Xmas campaign, which asks allies to refrain from spending money with white corporations from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day.

Christmas is the season for hating white people. Racial animosity hasn’t been this explicit since they closed down Auschwitz. Yet it is those brave enough to oppose Black Lives Matter who get whacked with the “RACIST!” club.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

For months on end, the liberal media establishment and local Democrat authorities not only tolerated but supported politically motivated violence — i.e., terrorism — by leftists affiliated with or inspired by Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Leftists were rewarded with greater control of the federal government, not to mention many $millions in donations from major corporations. Is anyone surprised to see more left-wing terrorism?

Thousands of residents in Aspen, Colorado were left without heat during near-zero degree weather after vandals — possibly green activists from an environmental group — attacked the city’s gas system, authorities said Monday.

The attack on three separate gas lines left 3,500 in the cold.

The Aspen Police Department said the words “Earth first!” were written on one pipe near Aspen.

No worries. The politicized FBI is investigating the matter. After Biden’s handlers put another James Comey type in charge, they will have no problem discovering that the damage was caused by systemic racism.

This terror attack reminded Tony Heller of Real Climate Science why there are so many trees in Colorado:

On tips from Sean C and KirklesWorth.

To compensate for the economically crushing coronavirus restrictions, we get free money from the government, compliments of whoever gets stuck holding the bag on the national debt (likely us, through hyperinflation). This free money comprises a looting spree. As usual, the looted money flows in the direction of those favored by the liberal ruling class — Marxist terrorists and black supremacist race rioters, for example:

Apparently, the State of Oregon wants more antifa and Black Lives Matter rioting. At [a] time when violent rioters were setting fires, looting, and terrorizing the people of Portland, they were rewarded with U.S. CARES Act COVID relief funds.

Matt Christiansen has details:

How much of this is enough?

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Considering the violent tactics and demented rhetoric associated with Black Lives Matter, it should surprise no one that its founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opel Tometi are associated with more conventional communists and terrorists.

Most are familiar with Cullors’ self-description as a trained Marxist. But there’s more:

Tometi and Garza are involved with a German revolutionary organization called Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, which was established by former East German communist leaders to build a new wave of international socialist revolutions.

Patrisse Cullors was mentored by Maoist communist Eric Mann of the infamous Weathermen terrorists and the League of Revolutionary Struggle. All three confounders are connected with the socialist organization Liberation Road. Other connections link them with the Chinese communist government and the terror-prone Palestinian revolutionary movement.

This video from Choose Freedom offers an overview:

True enough, when cowards, fools, and moonbats kneel to Black Lives Matter, they are kneeling to communism and terrorism. Our country is under attack by unadulterated evil.

Hat tip: Liberty Daily.

Finally, some good news regarding Black Lives Matter. Not all of the $zillions that corporations, celebrities, and left-leaning fools have donated to this conspicuously pernicious cause goes to facilitating riots or to the Democratic Party. Some of it flows relatively harmlessly into graft.

Via Fox News:

The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.

Sir Maejor Page, 32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday.

The name is as fake as the ideology. His real name is Tyree Conyers-Page.

Page founded Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta in 2016 and this year took in more than $466,000 in donations in June, July and August…

The FBI in Toledo said Page pledged to use those donations “for George Floyd” but instead used the money make purchases related to food, dining, entertainment, clothing, furniture, a home security system, tailored suits and accessories.

He also bought himself a house in Toledo.

In Page’s defense, George Floyd doesn’t need the money anyway. He has his golden casket, what else can he use?

Fox 5 reported in 2016 that Page became a familiar face at Black Lives Matter marches in Atlanta to protest fatal police shootings.

He was part of a group of Black activists who met with then-Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed to demand changes in police training and tactics.

If criminals want police tactics changed, those tactics are probably good the way they are.

Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta is not to be mistaken for Page’s previous outfit, Black Lives Matter of Atlanta, and is apparently not recognized as a national chapter by the national organization. But then, anybody can start up a Facebook page, participate in some riots, and validly claim to be part of the wider movement. It follows the al Qaeda decentralization pattern that has worked so well for other terrorists.

There will be plenty more Black Lives Matter arrests if it occurs to authorities that not only fraud but also rioting and insurrection are against the law.

On tips from Adam and R F.

If Cuties didn’t persuade you to cancel your Netflix subscription, maybe this will do the trick. Meghan Markle has pitched the infamously far-left company a new concept allowing her to cash in both on her connection to British royalty and on the Black Lives Matter phenomenon that has reduced parts of major American cities to smoking ruins.

Via Mirror Online:

Meghan’s proposed movie is about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who is said to have “hugely inspired’ the duchess.

If it gets the green light it will be part of a £120million deal she and Prince Harry signed with the streaming giant.

The price of celebrity moonbattery has gone up since Netflix threw $50 million or maybe $65 million at the Obamas.

A source said: “Meghan has been blown away by the incredible work Patrisse has done. She thinks her story needs to be told – and she would love to be the one to make it.”

It’s all part of the plan for Meghan and her prince. Via Breitbart:

After announcing that the couple would be stepping aside from their official royal duties — though retaining their honorary titles Duke and Duchess of Sussex — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to Los Angeles, where they reportedly intend to focus on activism and “leading the movement” of young people into woke politics.

By starting the Black Lives Matter movement that is tearing the country apart, Patrisse Cullors has done as much damage to the USA as anyone alive. She describes herself as a “trained Marxist.” Some of her training was provided by Eric Mann of the domestic terror group Weather Underground, who mentored her for over a decade. Her deranged and corrosive ideology is explicitly anti-white, anti-West, anti-family, and pro-communist.

Cullors describes the Labor/Community Strategy Center as her foundation. This outfit epitomizes the most dangerous extremes of leftist ideology. Also from Breitbart:

The center teaches and studies the history of the “Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions,” the “Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s,” and the “Great Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.”

The Haitian Revolution prominently featured genocide against whites. Even whites who supported the black uprising were systematically exterminated. That’s why you won’t find anyone of French ancestry in that former French colony.

The center also expresses its appreciation for the work of the U.S. Communist Party, “especially Black communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” while flaunting its roots in the new communist movement.

Patrisse Cullors personifies the evil that is destroying our country from within. Evil is chic these days. Meghan Markle knows how to make a buck on it.

On a tip from Henry B.

Kyle Rittenhouse appears to be a good kid who meant well by traveling to Kenosha to defend people’s property. He has been designated a demon by the liberal establishment, because he shot three rioters who were attacking him, killing two. Without evidence or relevance, he has been accused of the ultimate thought crime: white supremacism. Lest someone spoil the Two Minutes Hate, pointing out facts that contradict the liberal narrative on Rittenhouse can get you banned by Facebook.

Mark Dice is learning this the hard way:

It was interesting to learn that Facebook does not allow “praise or support of dangerous individuals or organizations.” They give examples of what they mean by “dangerous.” The first two are:

• Terrorist activity
• Organized hate or violence

None of the examples even remotely applies to Kyle Rittenhouse. However, the two above clearly apply to Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

Let’s see if Facebook bans praising and supporting these violent organizations, which are centered on hatred of the police and America, and which have been engaged in terrorist activities such as burning down businesses and attacking motorists on a regular basis for months now.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Lyle.