The 9/11 attack was the first attack on US territory since Pearl Harbor and the first attack on the mainland United States since the war of 1812.
It was the first time since WWII that we had a “moral mandate” to go to war, unlike the pop culture opinion of Korea (if they remember it at all) or Vietnam where it was US imperialism in Asia for as part of the Cold War, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Consequently, Americans who joined up to fight in the Middle East, and veterans of those wars were lionized.
First reponders were lionized as well because of the loss of life and rescue operation at Ground Zero.
That is now backfiring on us. Hard.
I cannot hammer this home hard enough. While the military has always recruited apolitically and from all walks of American life, there is an undeniable hard-Left presence in the military and among our veterans.
The Right’s lionizing of the military and veterans now gives these radicals cover. They can be openly insurrectionist socialists, but they are veterans and therefore shielded from criticism and their patriotism is unimpeachable.
Only a couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about Army aviation, combat wounded veteran, Senator Tammy Duckworth, who used her wounded veteran status to deflect criticism for agreeing with the destruction of statues of George Washington. The very profile on the Purple Heart she uses as a shield.
What we have seen in Portland is insurrectionism. It is a low-grade version of the siege of Fort Sumter. A group of radicals who hate the United States has spent weeks assaulting federal property, a Federal Courthouse, breaking the windows and trying to set it on fire.
US federal law enforcement has steadfastly defended the federal courthouse from total destruction, as is its duty.
The pop culture has declared the LEOs to be “Gestapo,” “stormtroopers,” and “jackbooted thugs.”
As of Friday night, the Leftist veterans of the US military are now out acting as human shields for the Antifa trying to destroy federal property.
Another huge crowd tonight in Portland, including a new "wall" on the front lines: a Wall of Vets.
Here's a look at the line of military veterans getting set up here in front of the federal courthouse. Behind them, the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Dads are arriving. pic.twitter.com/gGnXHjI3k2
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
I am not going to say that these people are not veterans. I believe them when they say that they are. You can question if they signed up out of patriotism or if they did it just for the college tuition. It doesn’t matter. The lionizing of our veterans means that we cannot ask that or parse those two groups into different categories.
The message is: “they served and therefore they are better, more moral, more patriotic, and nobler than you, you piece of shit Right-wing civilian who was too lazy or cowardly to serve.”
Army veteran Clint Hall says the federal presence here is wrong. He says it has only served to inflame tensions. pic.twitter.com/Hkywjgnwo2
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
This is a US Army veteran using his veteran status, and uniform, to tell us that this is the federal government’s fault.
This is some of what these veterans are defending.
Some protesters are working to cut the fence. The feds are targeting them. pic.twitter.com/nIDFIubUWg
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
Yes, that is Antifa using power tools to cut through the metal fences erected to protect the federal courthouse from vandalism.
How is that anything but an attempted breaching assault on federal property?
Some are lobbing explosive fireworks over the fence at the feds. Here are two big ones. pic.twitter.com/NuQ27Jb5rs
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
Here is someone throwing improvised explosive ordnance at federal law enforcement.
Volleys of tear gas and glass bottles pic.twitter.com/Qw28XnQ1zH
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
Notice the green laser on the wall. These are the high power green lasers that have been used to cause permanent eye damage to federal law enforcement.
Just as a reminder, in 1995, an international protocol was established to prohibit the use of laser blinding weapons in war. If this really was a war, Antifa would be committing war crimes.
Here are nurses acting as human shields.
There are also a whole bunch of nurses who are here in blue scrubs.
The overall crowd appears to me to be the largest yet. With the caveat that I’m terrible at estimating crowd sizes, I would guess 4,000 people. pic.twitter.com/8cuT78japL
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
We were just lionizing nurses because they were putting their lives on the line in the fight against COVID. That makes them heroes. We’re just going to ignore the number of TikTok videos they did out of boredom because hospitals stopped doing elective procedures for months on end.
We can’t question the goodness of nurses.
I will say it again.
These are insurrectionists – the same demographic that in Portland and Seattle established autonomous zones – engaged in a protracted siege of federal property with improvised explosive devices, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons, in violation of international rules of war.
Veterans, nurses, moms, etc, are defending this using their status as lionized and protected groups.
We are losing the battle and the propaganda war.
The Portland federal courthouse is Fort Sumter of the low-grade anti-Trump civil war that we are in.
It’s not an entirely a new phenomenon. The late John McCain got several passes from the public, including but not limited to his involvement in the “Keating Five” savings and loan scandal due to his status as a POW. John Kerry rode his veteran status almost to the White House until other veterans exposed the truth about his Vietnam service and “Band-Aid” Purple Hearts. As much as I respect and honor those that have worn the uniform, being a veteran doesn’t magically make you smarter, or better, than the rest of us. Nor does it give you immunity from criticism or prosecution when you want to destroy the country you swore an oath to protect. For those who think veteran status is a mantle of sainthood, remember that Timothy McVeigh was also a veteran.
Quite.
Re the professional politicians, it is very reminiscent of presidential candidate claims to have been born poor, sorry, disadvantaged in some form or other, and preferably in a log cabin, ever since Lincoln if not before.
This is standard terrorist technique. Fatah and Hamas have been doing this in the middle east for decades. It’s not surprising their peers in the USA would adopt that “human shield” tactic.
One thing that grated on my nerves was this elevation of service members to some kind of godhood status. The US Military (and now the first responders) are made up of…. (NEWS FLASH!) Humans.
And, like all humans, they are just as prone to human frailties as anyone else. Just because you put in four years as an analyst working in supply, does not mean you are a hero. And, just because you are wearing scrubs does not mean you are some kind of Florence Nightingale. There are nurses/doctors/paramedics that are self centered A-holes, just like there are accountants, lawyers, engineers, or whatever. Providing medical assistance is a job, not sainthood.
The sooner the Leaders start disappearing never to be seen or heard from again, the sooner this crap will slow up and end.
Most of these fat white women, fem white soyboy males will just melt away.
And the traitorous vets that stand with them…Fuck Them, there is only one way to deal with them.
There hardened and can only be dealt with oneway.
So when the machine guns come out n bodies start stacking up, will any of the protestors be all shocked? Do they even form a coherent thought of why they’re protesting? The middle East comes to America – it’s been so successful at bringing peace and love to Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, etc. Got no job, nowhere you gotta be? Let’s go protest. WTF.