Everyone of them look very sick from one thing or another. I do not imagine for one minute that anyone of them hold down a steady job, even if there were jobs to be had. I cannot know for certain but these Antifa folks are just looking for some excitement and something to do.A Portrait of Antifa
I cannot know for certain but these Antifa folks are just looking for some excitement and something to do.
Looks like some kind of horror flick. Antifa: Army of the Damned
Hardesty got upset over a mixup about where she was waiting for the car, then she didn’t want the windows open for ventilation because she was cold, then she wouldn’t get out when the driver cut the ride short and tried to drop her off at a gas station miles from home.
The Nov. 1 trip ended with dueling calls to 911 and a request from Hardesty for police to respond even though a dispatcher repeatedly told her that no crime had been committed.
This week brought news that Portland City Commissioner (as councilmembers are known) Jo Ann Hardesty called the cops over an argument with a Lyft driver days before the city council was scheduled to vote on her proposal to slash millions from the police budget. The hypocrisy is glaring, but the bigger lesson is about the damage an activist political class can do to cities all over America if they follow in Portland’s foolish footsteps.
Days after her abuse of emergency services, the council took up Hardesy’s proposal to slash $18 million from the police budget. Already in June, she had spearheaded a successful effort to cut $15 million. Her newest proposal narrowly failed, however. Dan Ryan, the commissioner who was the swing vote, had his home vandalized that night by a mob of antifa militants.
Hardesty’s initial police-defunding package has had deadly consequences. As part of the cuts, police units that investigate gun violence, work in schools and patrol the transit system were disbanded. The result? In just the first month, shootings increased by almost 200 percent compared to the previous year. In the months since, homicides and shootings have continued to soar.
Hardesty also gives cover to riots and rioters with baseless conspiracy theories that white supremacists are behind the city’s violence. “When we allow white nationalists and white supremacists to infiltrate our peaceful protest,” she said, “and then create the kind of chaos and damage in our community, we must make that stop.” Anyone who has covered the Portland riots, as I have, knows that they are the work of hard-left activists, many of whom are now known to federal authorities — not white supremacists.
In July, she even demanded to be made police commissioner and claimed that cops were starting fires to blame protesters. “I believe Portland Police is lying about the damage — or starting the fires themselves — so that they have justification for attacking community members,” she said. Hardesty was forced to walk back her comments following a request by police chief Chuck Lovell that she produce evidence.
And last month — five months into the near-daily riots — Hardesty flat-out denied that riots have even been occurring. “I won’t buy into that narrative,” she said during a news conference.
Meanwhile, though, the police department continues to lose officers to resignations and early retirements, and antifa is still rioting. Hardesty isn’t up for re-election until 2022, and she has vowed to continue her efforts to defund police. The hard left, once in power, doesn’t give up: Let that be a warning to other cities.
This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the drafting of a new piece of legislation that would expand the state’s Stand Your Ground law. He is calling the legislation an “anti-mob” bill and it seems specifically targeted at the Black lives Matter movement and the ongoing protests against police brutality that have swept across the United States in recent months. The new legislation, if it becomes law, would allow armed citizens in the state of Florida to shoot, and potentially kill anyone that they suspect of looting a home or business.
The proposed legislation has been criticized by legal experts in the state, who fear that it could give vigilantes a license to kill anyone who they deem to be a rioter, and could further increase the change of civil unrest.
The legislation also includes other measures that would give immunity to citizens who hurt or injure protesters who are blocking the road. The bill would make it a third-degree felony to block traffic and give immunity to drivers who kill or injure protesters that were blocking the road.