by Giulio Meotti

Don’t be fooled by what’s going in the US and in some European cities. It has nothing to do with racism, injustice and compassion. It is pure politics on the one hand and a form of mass ideological enslavement on the other.

Above all, it is not about reason, but irrationality.

There are those who fight for positive reasons, believing they will alleviate racism and that they have to correct the wrongs that exist in every democracy. But most people are there because in the pack they feel better off, can defend themselves from attacks and insults, avoid thinking.

I don’t care about all that so I’ll tell you how things are.

The policeman who killed George Floyd will spend the rest of his life in prison. The American system is not the Chinese one, where a policeman who tramples other citizens is given a medal. Unfortunately, anyone who does not submit to the dominant narrative will be called a racist, white supremacist and fascist, and not necessarily in that order.

Black Lives Matter, the movement behind the protests, doesn’t care about blacks. They never protest when blacks are killed by other blacks, although the biggest cause of death in the United States of blacks between the ages of 15 and 45 is … other black men. They have never protested against black slavery markets such as those in Mauritania or when blacks exterminate other blacks as they do in Sudan.

The police are not anti-black, since an average of about 20 percent of the police force in America is black (50 percent in Los Angeles is Hispanic, 60 percent in Atlanta is black as is 33 percent in Philadephia etc). Some of America’s poorest and most violent cities have black mayors, black governors and black councils. Like Baltimore, and Chicago.

In short, reality is not an edifying black and white film.

Reading the outraged media, hearing Obama who embraces the protests, or watching the kneeling members of hypocritical establishments, it would seem that in America racist white policemen have fun going around shooting black unarmed citizens.

Let’s see the facts.

There are hundreds of millions of interactions between the police and civilians in America every year. 1004 people were killed by police hands in 2019. Of these, 235 were black. And of these, 226 were armed. This means that 9 unarmed black citizens were killed by police over a population of 330 million last year. Each of these lost lives is a defeat.

But such as to justify the devastation of cities? The destruction of people’s livelihood? And the accusations of “systematic racism”?

As Heather Mac Donald reports in an article in the Wall Street Journal, blacks represent a quarter of the total number of people killed in police shootings every year, a stable figure since 2015. The answer would seem that this 25 percent demonstrates racism since African Americans are only 13 percent of the American population. Let us look deeper.

There were 7,407 murder victims of color in the United States in 2018, the last year for which final data are available. The 9 unarmed men killed in police shootings are 0.1 percent of those killings. While African Americans are twice as involved in police shootings as their total percentage would seem to justify, they commit 53 percent of the murders and 60 percent of the robberies – well over four times their percentage of the population. And whose fault is that? The fact that life, the system, is unfair? Maybe.

But 55 years of Democratic programs in the fight against racism and poverty have not helped. Nor is the fact that all the cities where the protests take place, including Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed, are almost all Democratic fiefdoms.

In addition, the killing of black citizens by the police is on the wane. Higher numbers were reported under Obama.

But unlike the liberal partisans, we say that it is not anyone’s fault, neither Obama’s nor Trump’s.

Except that liberals must go back to blaming Trump, to see the Mississipi Burning again, to publish articles about the Ku Klux Klan, to dream of racial war to redeem our “sick” society. The real disease, however, is in the mind of the beholder, it is the idea that we are racist and unjust and that we have to pay for who we are.

Liberals love to see the system burning for electoral gains.

Trump has his political game, that is, to close the ranks of white Main Street and others who find the riots frightening and unacceptable. The Democrats have their game, stirring the racial war for electoral purposes. Who loses the game? Society, its decency, our capacity for discernment and culture.

In a society calling itself “open” it is becoming increasingly difficult to say these things without being verbally and physically attacked.

In Bristol, UK, the “anti-racists” tore down a statue of philantropist Colston because he was involved in the slave trade. You have to look at it, at those images of human fury and fanaticism, cultural vengeance and moral irrationality. It is the West’s folly.

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Several uninvolved persons verbally attacked police officers at the railway platform of Stuttgart main station last Saturday evening at about 7:00 pm. A 33-year-old Nigerian citizen had previously been caught by the conductor of an intercity train between Göppingen and Plochingen without the required ticket. Federal police officers were called in to establish the identity of the suspect after the train arrived at Stuttgart main station.In the course of the identity check, the police officers also found several documents issued for other personal data and secured them to avert danger. The man, who lives in the Starnberg district, was then released on the spot after the measures were completed. Shortly thereafter, he suddenly and loudly demanded the return of the seized documents, behaved in a violent manner and yelled loudly, so that a previously uninvolved group of people became aware of the incident.The approximately 15 people then showed solidarity with the perpetrator and verbally attacked the police officers. In doing so, they also questioned vociferously the legality of the police measures that had already been completed at that time. The situation was quickly calmed down shortly thereafter with the involvement of further patrols of the federal and state police. The 33-year-old must face criminal charges for obtaining benefits by fraud.

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A lenient sentence for a young refugee who had stabbed and seriously injured a jogger in the Vienna Favoriten district, allegedly under the influence of drugs. The 16-year-old was sentenced on Monday to two years’ suspended sentence, only eight months of which the Afghan has to serve.Initially, he had threatened two girls with his knife, who had run into him by chance. The refugee had come from a party, had consumed alcohol and ecstasy. On his way home, he first attacked an 18-year-old girl, knocking her down. A 17-year-old girl tried to defend her friend.At that moment, a 19-year-old jogger came along, wanted to assist the teenagers. The Afghan immediately punched the security guard in the face with his fist, broke his nose bone. He then stabbed the 19-year-old several times in his chest, back and legs.Even to this day the victim suffers from the late effects. The young Afghan, who had bought the knife to impress girls, accepted the verdict – legally binding.

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The Austrian Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober already expressed optimism that no second wave of Corona infections will occur. But while Chancellor Kurz’ federal government is already claiming to be the saviour of the nation, the number of new infections is skyrocketing in Vienna. On Monday, 61 new Corona cases were registered, mainly in Vienna. This is in comparison to the current figure of about 500 people throughout Austria. The absolute majority of the illnesses are located in Vienna. Just last Thursday, around 50,000 people were crowding the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Vienna. It is not yet possible to say how many were infected during the mass gathering.It is still too early for any statistical effect. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) the incubation period is 5-14 days.According to a spokesperson of the medical crisis management team in Vienna, the infections can be traced mainly to family-internal infections. The recent increase in infections could be due to the end of Ramadan. Among Muslims, Eid is one of the most important holidays of the year. It is when families and friends meet after the austerities of the hard time of Ramadan to celebrate for three days and eat hearty food. This year’s Sugar Festival fell on May 24th, two weeks ago.So despite the slightly warmer summer temperatures, the virus has not yet come to a standstill. So the Black Lives Matter demonstrations could still bring bad aftermath. There is growing evidence from Sweden, Great Britain and the USA that dark-skinned people die four times more frequently from the Covid-19 virus than white people. The exact causes of the apparent ethnic differences in mortality have not yet been researched.

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The deportation prison at Kirchhainer Damm in Berlin district Lichtenrade can theoretically be shut down! According to the newspaper B.Z., the prison has been completely vacant since May 11th …

A judge had decided that the Chechen dangerous man M. would be released. The reason: his deportation was cancelled because the legal deadline was not met!

M. was released. Because of the Corona measures, the passport replacement papers had not been issued by the country of origin. As the Senate Interior Administration stated in response to a B.Z. inquiry, “the legally prescribed prognosis for the timely execution of the deportation could not have been sufficiently explained”. The bosses of the deportation prison informed the next police station about the release, because M. was to receive a warning to troublemakers beforehand.But there were language barriers. At some point, an officer of a task force was found who spoke Russian.

M. is above all considered a great danger for his wife and children who live in the witness protection program. It is unclear where he is at the moment and whether he is being monitored by the police.

A spokesman for the administration: “Deportations that could not be carried out in the past weeks due to special circumstances are to be carried out in the future.”

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Progressives in Catalonia were so angered by the death of African-American George Floyd that they decided to show their solidarity with by vandalizing shops and looting supermarkets.

Catalan regional daily El Periódico reported that shops were attacked and a supermarket looted after an race protest in Salt (Girona).

The Mossos d’Esquadra [Catalan regional police] are assessing the damage to vehicles and shops resulting from a protest that took place last Monday in Salt over the death of the black citizen George Floyd in the United States.

According to the information provided by the police department, which is looking for the perpetrators, some 150 persons initially gathered in Salt, but the number rose to 500, after which a rock was thrown at a police van and there were other attacks against a car and a public transport bus.

The damage includes a vandalized bank, a restaurant, urban equipment [as in benches, traffic lights, etc.] and damage suffered when the Salt protest moved to neighboring Girona, where the looting of a supermarket occurred, according to the Efe news agency.

The police have started an investigation, and they will record the complaints filed by owners of the shops and buildings attacked.

AfroVibes, the association that organized the demonstration, denied their responsibility for the sad events, and they reassured the public that these happened after the protest was declared finished, according to the ACN news agency.

The group regrets what happened and has apologized to those who have suffered. Furthermore, they reminded the public that some twenty demonstrators followed behind the violent ones to pick up the rubbish bins that were knocked over. AfroVibes defended the “pacifist” nature of the protest.

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When Antifa first invaded the national consciousness, during the 2017 riots in Charlottesville, Va., two prominent journalists made a stunning assertion.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo joined others in equating the left-wing militants with the thousands of Allied soldiers who stormed Normandy’s beaches to invade Adolf Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” on D-Day.

A more appropriate equation would be with the thousands of soldiers in the Red Army, who brutally marched toward Berlin, where they would establish Soviet hegemony in the so-called German Democratic Republic after defeating Hitler.

Despite antiseptic portrayals throughout American media, Antifa is much more than an “anti-Fascist” group. As Americans have seen since the death of George Floyd, Antifa provides the violent complement to “Progressive” ideology. Like its comrades in academia and the media, Antifa seeks to destroy the American emphasis on liberty under law, and to impose one of history’s most repressive ideologies.

Bernd Langer, whose “80 Years of Anti-Fascist Action” was published by Germany’s Association for the Promotion of Anti-Fascist Literature, succinctly defined the rhetorical subterfuge.

“Anti-fascism is a strategy rather than an ideology,” wrote Langer, a former Antifa member, for “an anti-capitalist form of struggle.”

Short for the German phrase, “Antifaschistische Aktion,” Antifa was founded during Germany’s Weimar Republic as the paramilitary arm of the German Communist Party (KPD), which the Soviet Union funded. In other words, Antifa became the German Communists’ version of the Nazis’ brown-shirted SA.

The KPD made no secret of Antifa’s affiliation. A 1932 photo of KPD headquarters in Berlin prominently displayed the double-flagged Antifa emblem among other Communist symbols and slogans. In a photo from the 1932 Unity Congress of Antifa in Berlin, the double-flagged banner shared space with the hammer and sickle and with two large cartoons. One supported the KPD, the other mocked the SPD, Germany’s Social Democratic Party.

Interestingly, in its May 31 article on Antifa, the New York Times failed to mention the group’s roots in German Communism. That information, included in this piece, is widely available.

Today, Antifa embraces those roots. An article from the website www.redspark.nu describesmembers as “communists, anarchists, and other non-aligned leftists brought together for the express purpose of confronting and preventing local fascist organizing.”  Six months before the Charlottesville riots, Antifa provided an example of that mission.

In February 2017, former Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley. Antifa responded by sending masked agitators into the city to start fires, break windows, paint graffiti, destroy automatic teller machines and assault bystanders with pepper spray and flagpoles. The university cancelled Yiannopoulos’ appearance but not before the militants caused nearly $100,000 in damage.

Antifa’s goal to suppress “fascism” reflects the views of neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. “A policy of unequal treatment would protect radicalism on the Left against that on the Right,” Marcuse wrote in “Repressive Tolerance,” his 1965 essay. “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left” extending “to the stage of action as well as of discussion and propaganda, of deed as well as of word.”

Marcuse dismissed the idea of individual liberty protected by law in favor of a Marxist society that favors ostensibly oppressed groups at the expense of everybody else. Such a society, Marcuse wrote, would demand “the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements” that not only “promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion” but also “oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.” and “may necessitate new and rigid restrictions on teachings and practices in the educational institutions.”

Marcuse even justified violence. “There is a ‘natural right’ of resistance for oppressed and overpowered minorities to use extralegal means if the legal ones have proved to be inadequate,” Marcuse wrote. “Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy; it is nonsensical to invoke the absolute authority of this law and this order against those who suffer from it and struggle against it … for their share of humanity. If they use violence, they do not start a new chain of violence but try to break an established one.”

In expressing his contempt for “the sacred liberalistic principle of equality for ‘the other side,’” Marcuse maintained in 1968 ”that there are issues where either there is no ‘other side’ in any more than a formalistic sense, or where ‘the other side’ is demonstrably ‘regressive’ and impedes possible improvement of the human condition.”

NYU Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat illustrated Marcuse’s influence in comments for the Times. A specialist in studying fascism, Ben-Ghiat alluded to a protest last year in Portland, Ore., where Antifa pelted independent journalist Andy Ngo with so-called milk shakes laced with quick-drying cement. Ngo suffered a brain hemorrhage and went to a hospital.

“Throwing a milkshake is not equivalent to killing someone,” Ben-Ghiat said. “But because the people in power are allied with the right, any provocation, any dissent against right-wing violence, backfires.”

K-Su Park, an associate law professor at Georgetown, also reflects Marcuse’s thought. After the Charlottesville riots, Park challenged the American Civil Liberties Union to reconsider its approach to the First Amendment. The ACLU represented Jason Kessler, who organized the “Unite the Right” rally and sued the City of Charlottesville for revoking his permit for the protest.

The ACLU’s approach “implies that the country is on a level playing field, that at some point it overcame its history of racial discrimination to achieve a real democracy, the cornerstone of which is freedom of expression,” Park wrote. “Other forms of structural discrimination and violence also restrict the exercise of speech, such as police intimidation of African-Americans and Latinos. The danger that communities face because of their speech isn’t equal.”

At the time, Park was a fellow with UCLA’s critical race studies program. Critical race studies comes from critical theory, a sociological approach developed by Germany’s neo-Marxist Frankfurt School, where Marcuse was a leading thinker.

Marcuse’s influence also plays a vital role in the left-wing ideology permeating the Democratic Party and the entertainment industry. So nobody should be surprised that numerous celebrities publicly committed themselves to providing bail for anybody arrested during rioting.

Joining them is the staff of former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrats’ presidential nominee who has yet to condemn the rioting.

“What’s always been troubling is the way that so many people in the media and in the political establishment have given (Antifa) cover to operate — including law enforcement, by the way, and one administration after the other,” former CBS News journalist Lara Logan said. “This is not a Democrat-Republican, left-right, blue-red kind of thing.”

Given the political controversies roiling the nation, the “Progressive” agenda and Logan’s remarks, the article on Antifa from www.redspark.nu concludes with words as enlightening as they are frightening. (All emphases added)

“Fighting fascism is direly important—like fighting police violence, environmental destruction, homelessness, etc. is direly important—but you can’t cure a disease by chasing after the symptoms alone. … To ultimately solve these problems is to wage a much larger war.

“As these issues are all symptoms of capitalism, the solution is found in working class organizing in order to take power and thus dictate the society in which we wish to live. We will only do this by connecting anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, pro-environment organizing with revolutionary anti-capitalist organizing aimed towards achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

Logan expressed that idea more succinctly: “Liberation begins when America dies, and that’s what they’re looking for.”

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As America reopens from coronavirus lockdowns and protests and riots engulf American cities, Attorney General William Barr is hard at work on Obamagate. According to award-winning journalist Adam Housley, “as many as 16-17” criminal referrals will be headed to the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign in 2016.

“Criminal referrals have already been sent to the Justice Department and the overall number may reach as many as 16-17 by the end of next week. Investigators are working on additional ones as we speak and some are targeting the Mueller probe and how [retired Gen. Michael Flynn was] investigated,” Housley tweeted.

Housley explained that the criminal referrals are coming from Congress “and are much more detailed than any before.”

“This is coming from people with direct knowledge of the ongoing investigations. These same sources say this targets agency folks and McCabe may be one. What’s interesting is to see how this will differ, if at all, from what [U.S. Attorney John] Durham is doing,” Housley added.

On Saturday, The Washington Examiner reported that House Intelligence Committee Republicans were preparing to send Obamagate criminal referrals to the DOJ. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) had sent eight referrals to Barr last spring, and he told Fox Business last week that House Republicans have enough evidence for “at least another five, possibly as many as 10” recommendations for prosecution as three U.S. attorneys review various aspects of the Russia investigation.

Nunes said he and his colleagues plan to send the referrals withing the next “week to 10 days or so.”

“We now are looking at the overall Gen. Flynn investigation and how that was conducted and the rest of the Mueller team,” the congressman said. “And then, of course, as new information has come to light from the information that was declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, that information has also shown that there are other people who have lied or misled Congress or have, I think in some cases maybe, lied by omission, documents that were kept from Congress.”

Echoing Trump, Nunes has claimed Obama administration officials abused the government’s intelligence powers in an attempted “coup” against Trump. He teased that Republicans would escalate the investigation if they win back control of the House in November.

“We’ve got about 40 people that are on that list,” he said, without naming anyone. “So, hopefully, if Republicans are put back in charge, we will be able to subpoena those people, but right now, we can’t.”

Grenell was replaced by former Rep. John Ratcliffe late last month after the Texas Republican was confirmed by the Senate. During his three-month tenure as head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, Grenell declassified long-sought-after documents related to the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and forced the hand of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to release dozens of witness transcripts from the panel’s own investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Schiff accused Grenell of “selective declassification for political purposes.”

According to Housley, Barr is aiming “to avoid a constitutional crisis” and so he has proceeded quietly.

Obamagate broke open last month after the apparent perjury trap set for Michael Flynn revealed the ugly depths to which the Intelligence Community would sink to maintain the narrative that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016. The transcripts of House Intelligence Committee testimonyrevealed that most of the intelligence actors in the investigation did not have any evidence to suspect collusion. The mostly-unredacted scope memo laying out the reasoning behind appointing Special Counsel Robert Mueller has laid bare the utter baselessness of the case against Trump.

The protests and riots over the death of George Floyd have sucked up the airwaves, but Obamagate remains a developing scandal with many potential criminal investigations.

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State-controlled Iranian press reported on Monday that judge Gholamreza Mansouri who has incarcerated 20 journalists is reportedly in Hanover, Germany and is now facing a massive bribery corruption charge in the Islamic Republic of Iran.The anti-Western news agency Young Journalists Club (YJC) wrote that “Gholamreza Mansouri is a judge, who received a bribe of 500,000 euros, has now fled the country,” they added that he “is said to be hospitalized in Professor [Majid] Samii’s hospital in Germany.”

The US government news organization Radio Farda reported that Mansouri “issued arrest warrants for 20 journalists in a single day on February 8, 2013. On his orders, security forces raided offices of various newspapers to arrest the accused including at least two chief editors.”His attending physician, Majid Samii, faced intense criticism in 2018 for providing medical care to the late Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi at his International Neuroscience Institute. Shahroudi was responsible for the execution of adolescents while overseeing the country’s brutal justice system for a decade. He is a considered by human rights activists to be a mass murderer.Mansouri said in a video on Monday that he sent a lawyer to address the corruption charge against him. He added that he was recently informed about the allegation of bribery and he will return to Iran when the borders reopen.The alleged fugitive judge Mansouri worked in the Lavasan court, a wealthy town in Shemiranat County, Tehran Province, where he was accused of accepting a bribe of 500,000 euros ($564,855).Radio Farda listed statements from journalists imprisoned by Mansouri. Pouria Alami, wrote in a tweet that Mansouri  sentenced Alami to solitary confinement on charges of “collaboration with MI6.”

MI6 is the foreign intelligence service of the government of Britain. Iran’s opaque justice system frequently manufactures espionage charges against journalists, as well as political and human rights activists.Radio Farda wrote that “Reyhaneh Tabatabai, a reporter for the reformist Sharq newspaper at the time, has also named him as the prosecutor who ordered her arrest in 2013.”The outlet noted that “Behnam Gholipour, a journalist now living outside Iran, in a tweet has called for appealing to international courts to put Mansouri on trial for gross violations of human rights.”Germany’s government previously issued a visa to Mansouri in 2018 for treatment in Hanover. The 2018 visa was only valid for a time period of 90 to 180 days, according to a statement by the Lower Saxony government in 2018, where Hanover is located.In 2018, Iranian dissidents accused the private International Neuroscience Institute of hosting Mansouri for medical treatment. The director of the INI denied that Mansouri was present at the time.

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