https://lawliberty.org/forum/we-will-burn-and-loot-and-destroy-the-weather-underground-and-its-legacy/
The mention of Krystalnacht, whose participants were prosecuted in the NSDAP's courts, isn't a particularly germane reference as it's used here. However, we can salvage it for purposes of testing this left-right equivalence Nordlinger is using it to reach for.
Every May first the left observes something called May Day. Later designated a day of appreciation for workers, in it's genesis it's a day commemorating the Haymarket Riot when communists bombed a cordon of police, killing seven and four civilians.
Each year in the usual cities, red "anarchists" are indulged in ritual May Day mayhem. The same squads who enacted the violence of 2020's wave of boshevic terrorism, previously engaged in enacting violence to suppress campus speaking events and, previous to that, enacting the violence at WTO and IMF meetings (which you'd expect Mr. Nordlinger to be most sensitive to), are indulged in reenacting the terrorism of that initial May fourth in 1886. Of course, these affairs are nothing quite as severe as they would be if they involved bombs. Typically there's a rally in which every frayed end of the extreme left - from "anarchists" to Maoists - commingle with Democrats and bark incendiary cant about "revolution" into the PA. Then there's a march and, as the sun sets, "breakaway" marches leading to clashes with police, upended and alit trash cans and, of course, no small amount of broken glass.
Our patience with the left is such that this yearly ritual of political mob intimidation and violence isn't even noticed. It bears noting then that any May Day in Oakland of the last two dozen years netted more destruction than the January 6 protest at the Capitol, which is said to be the equivalent of Al Qaeda's 911 attack. The protesters who "terrorized" the nation's most powerful people by strolling between the rope lines of the Capitol, taking some cheeky selfies with their workboots on their desks, and making off with a lectern, are said to be the equivalent of ISIS. It's been suggested that the methods, perhaps ordinance also, used to eliminate ISIS should be used to hunt and eliminate the perpetrators of this illegal protest which left a wake of empty water bottles to be picked up.
Since the illegal protest at the Capitol is always described as "deadly", we may as well pick from a dozen of socially and politically excused murders performed by the left this past year amid the BLM riots. We may take, for instance, the unpleasantness in Atlanta. There, the left had burned to the ground and were "occupying" under force of arms a Wendy's franchise location. Eight year-old Secoriah Turner was in the car with her mother when her mother, not realizing she was entering an "autonomous zone", drove too close to the leftwing paramilitaries' perimeter. The leftwing paramilitaries unloaded into the windshield of the car, killing the child. None have come forward to take responsibility for the error. For the media's part, there is such disinterest in the matter that Turner's family had to resort to renting billboard space to appeal for someone of good conscience to come forward with information about the shooter. Of course that information would have to come from a volunteer within the paramilitary cell, as police are politically constrained from pressing their investigation too aggressively when the civil liberties of leftwing paramilitaries are at stake.
The "deadliness" of the January 6th Capitol protest consists of: Three heart attacks, one protester overcome by the police's crowd dispersal gas, a policeman, himself a Trump-supporter, who was initially reported to have been bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher though that turned out to have been an abject lie (he died of a stroke hours after returning to his precinct and texting to his family that he had suffered no injuries at the protest), and an unarmed, 110-pound female Air Force vet who was murdered by a Capitol police officer who is permitted to remain unknown to the public. Unlike Derik Chauvin, this officer who shot an unarmed protester who could not possibly have presented a physical threat to him is not being named, his name has not been leaked, he is not expected to be indicted, much less made to stand trial and no journalistic outfit in the country is interested in discovering his identity for publication in the public interest.
Whereas police kneel for the far left, they fire live ammo at the right. Whereas the remains of the Wendy's location in Atlanta is traversable today, the Capitol is not. The Capitol is encircled with unscalable security fencing and guarded by thousands of military personnel. In case the selfie-takers come back to again terroristically evince disdain for their rulers.
Now, imagine how much more plausible our ruling class' "White Panic" narrative would be if it were that every year, under the approving eyes of Republican officeholders, rightwing paramilitaries were indulged in ritualistic reenactments of Krystalnacht, as we indulge the left in their May Day shenanigans. If there were parity in that sort of ritual display like that, we still couldn't even say that the right presents a more serious threat than the left.
In fact, the only way to synthesize the lessons of BLM with the lessons of January 6 is to suggest that the January 6 protesters were lax in their fervor. Had they instead burnt the Capitol to the ground and occupied it's smoldering footprint under force of arms in the name of their cause, they'd have have achieved a wholly legitimate, first-amendment protected, "mostly peaceful" protest and been worthy of praise and endorsement. Having fallen short of that level of mayhem, they're instead hunted as terrorists. Knowing this, I bet some of them now sit in their jail cells wishing they'd taken the time to knock over a statue or two. The left gained a lot of support from the institutions and corporate grant-writers for destroying statues. Since we're supposing that "both sides" are governed by the same standard, it only stands to reason that the Capitol protesters would've come out of it in better standing with the law and the political establishment had they been less respectful of the Rotunda gallery statuary.
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