Black Lives Matter, Marxist?

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It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism. “Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working-class people) and eventually a classless communist society,

VIOLENT, ILLEGAL acts of burning down buildings, rioting, looting, killing is NOT protected under the Constitution. I've posted this before to you. BLM is a radical, Marxist group which uses terrorism against the citizens and the government to achieve their aims of liberation. They will be deemed as a domestic terrorist group one day when the woke, white Liberals realize what the rest of us already know.

One billion dollars of property damage is not nothing, neither are the numerous injured police officers and those they killed. Neither are the 27 other black people killed by the BLM 'peaceful protests. BLM ideology over-rides humanity.
They don't care who they kill or how much damage they inflict, as long as they can replace the capitalist system. Their 'revolution' is creating chaos, carnage, death and destruction.

US riots set to scar economy for years to come
Violent protests can do more than just physical harm, they can do long-term damage to economies

Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damage



George Floyd protests could be most expensive civil disturbance in US history, experts say
Prior to 2020, the costliest civil disorder event in U.S. were the 1992 Los Angeles riots. They cost the country 1.4 billion but BLM riots 2020 will be higher than that.

Insured Losses from Riots Reach ‘Catastrophe’ Levels.

waybread said:

Do you actually understand what Marxism is?? It doesn't seem like it.


Not to mention the fact that espousing Marxism is protected under the Constitution. Which I assume you uphold.

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blackbery said:

It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism. “Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working-class people) and eventually a classless communist society,

VIOLENT, ILLEGAL acts of burning down buildings, rioting, looting, killing is NOT protected under the Constitution. I've posted this before to you. BLM is a radical, Marxist group which uses terrorism against the citizens and the government to achieve their aims of liberation. They will be deemed as a domestic terrorist group one day when the woke, white Liberals realize what the rest of us already know.

One billion dollars of property damage is not nothing, neither are the numerous injured police officers and those they killed. Neither are the 27 other black people killed by the BLM 'peaceful protests. BLM ideology over-rides humanity.
They don't care who they kill or how much damage they inflict, as long as they can replace the capitalist system. Their 'revolution' is creating chaos, carnage, death and destruction.

US riots set to scar economy for years to come
Violent protests can do more than just physical harm, they can do long-term damage to economies

Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damage


Insured Losses from Riots Reach ‘Catastrophe’ Levels.

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Best chance for Marxists achieving their goal is 4 more years of Trump.

I AGREE David. There is NO evidence that any money donated to BLM goes to the DNC or any political party. They certainly are not giving it to the black communities which have suffered the most from their rioting. They certainly don't give any money to the Hispanic or Asian community which lost their businesses. Maybe they are giving it to the Cuban government? But not one black person has been given a dime by BLM even though they've collected millions. One day they will have to account for where the money is going. Maybe then the woke, white Liberals who think they are such a 'peaceful group' will understand what we've been warning about.

david starling said:

The claim that Thousand Currents is funneling BLM money to the DNC is entirely unsubstantiated.

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Maybe she's a secret Trump supporter? Maybe he's getting the millions they've collected. Maybe BLM was founded with the sole purpose of getting Trump re-elected even though he was a private citizen when they started.

Maybe Trump is the real leader of BLM.

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Alicia Garza still refuses to endorse the Democratic Presidential candidate.

OR, to condemn the violence that's helping the Trump reelection campaign.

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blackbery said:

Maybe she's a secret Trump supporter? Maybe he's getting the millions they've collected. Maybe BLM was founded with the sole purpose of getting Trump re-elected even though he was a private citizen when they started.

Maybe Trump is the real leader of BLM.

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No. At most, he's bankrolling the violence to distract from the message that the slogan itself actually means: Stop police brutality, especially against black people.

But, the founders of BLM are in favor of the violence, Thousand Currents is in favor of it, so they may be secretly behind it, using well-meaning donations.

Bottom line, as it turns out, BLM is actually helping Trump's reelection campaign.

She would probably think Trump is a "Godsend" for her cause, if it weren't for Marxists being atheistic.

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blackbery said:

It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism. “Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working-class people) and eventually a classless communist society,

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So let's pause for a moment. The proletariat, as you note, is basically the blue collar working class: not a comparatively small number of rock and bottle tossing anarchists in Portland. In Marx's day, the European ruling class still included powerful hereditary aristocracies plus newly minted Captains of Industry, as the Industrial Revolution was on the ascendancy. With no health and safety regulations or labor unions, and few legal protections for the poor, blue collar people worked their tails off, with little to show for it-- except oftentimes, damaged health. (To cite one example, the noise in a typical textile mill was so loud that occupational deafness was a common hazard.)

In the northeastern states, the abandonment of economically non-competitive farms and the drain of young men to the West-- in an era without social security or high-paying jobs for women-- meant that many single women worked in the mills to support younger siblings and ageing parents.

Marx had a good-enough analysis of the patently unequal social and labor relations in Europe of his day. What he didn't foresee was that egregious 20th century dictatorships under the banner of communism would make people's lives miserable; or that upward mobility, notably in North America, made his hypothesized workers' revolt unattractive.

Marx also did not foresee that blue collars workers might become Trump supporters for ideological, vs. pocket-book reasons.

But you might question what happens when minority people experience gross social and economic inequalities, but are prevented from following the white man's path to upward mobility due to systemic (structural) discrimination?

VIOLENT, ILLEGAL acts of burning down buildings, rioting, looting, killing is NOT protected under the Constitution. [/B] I've posted this before to you.

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And I have consistently agreed with that statement, as you recall. What is protected under the First Amendment, however, is the right to peaceable assembly and freedom of speech. This is a fact that you consistently overlook.

Were you to acknowledge the truth, that the great majority of demonstrators are non-violent and peaceful, your Fox News-inspired Chicken Little tropes would cease. The sky is not falling, but Trump thinks it's to his advantage to make it appear so.

BLM is a radical, Marxist group which uses terrorism against the citizens and the government to achieve their aims of liberation. They will be deemed as a domestic terrorist group one day when the woke, white Liberals realize what the rest of us already know.

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Blackbery, we've been around this mulberry bush too many times. What you refuse to admit is that there is a much larger Black Lives Matter movement that is not in the hip pocket of a smaller organization by that name. But log onto their website, and then you quote to me their espousal of rock-throwing and Marxism.

It turns out that a majority (nearly 2/3) of Americans support the social justice aims of Black Lives Matter, and this from Forbes-- a conservative financial outlet.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbr...-confederate-statues-poll-finds/#4992b59146a9

This is a far greater number of Americans than those who self-identify as Democrats or unaffiliated liberals. American may disagree with Black Lives Matter tactics, but not with its goals of greater equality for all.

One billion dollars of property damage is not nothing, neither are the numerous injured police officers and those they killed. Neither are the 27 other black people killed by the BLM 'peaceful protests. BLM ideology over-rides humanity.
They don't care who they kill or how much damage they inflict, as long as they can replace the capitalist system. Their 'revolution' is creating chaos, carnage, death and destruction.

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These are your words, not mine. I do not subscribe to your hysteria. I don't know if you recall the race riots in the US from the mid-1960s, when Watts burned, but maybe you'd like to read up on it.

US riots set to scar economy for years to come
Violent protests can do more than just physical harm, they can do long-term damage to economies

Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damage.


George Floyd protests could be most expensive civil disturbance in US history, experts say
Prior to 2020, the costliest civil disorder event in U.S. were the 1992 Los Angeles riots. They cost the country 1.4 billion but BLM riots 2020 will be higher than that.

Insured Losses from Riots Reach ‘Catastrophe’ Levels.

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This seems to be a direct quote. What is your source? It looks like this one: https://journalstar.com/news/local/...cle_684486d1-d3e9-57e4-8940-5a8a63d077ca.html

Property damage shouldn't happen. We agree. But you seem to care more about bricks-and-mortar than social justice for living human beings.

This article is kind of interesting, from Women's Wear Daily, the fashion industry outlet, of all things. https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/looting-retail-race-george-floyd-1203645124/

eekndyn said:

Soros hates trump and America. Using the blm to destroy America and point the blame back to trump. As if it is his fault. When trump has done more for black americans since Lincoln.

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This is hilarious. If George Soros actually did a fraction of the evil deeds that conspiracy theorists accuse him of doing, he'd have to clone himself 20 times just to mastermind all of them.

Trump has not done more for Black Americans than any president since Lincoln. That honor probably belongs to Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed into law the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act. These initiated the dismantling of the Jim Crow laws of the South.

Please read up on these landmark laws.

I might just mention that a vandal who broke a lot of windows in Minneapolis, nicknamed Umbrella Man, was arrested. Turns out he's a white supremacist and Hells Angel who wanted to start a race war.

I wonder how many others like him are causing vandalism.

One man out of the thousands of white, woke Liberals and BLM thugs who have smashed, vandalized, looted and killed to the tune of one BILLION dollars of property damage, 27 innocent civilians killed and 3 police officers.

Chicago Lightweight Lori Lightfoot calling tear gas on par with chemical weapons so the police have nothing to disperse the crowds with. DNC already called pepper spray 'military force'. These are the tools every police force around the world deal with riots but can't use them anymore in America thanks to the Democrats.

Over 100 police agencies pulling out as security at Democratic National Convention
They're withdrawing from deals to send help for security at the convention next month in Milwaukee, in part over an order to stop using tear gas as crowd control.

Over 80 people shot in Chicago since the weekend but Democrat Mayor says her city is fine and okay and doesn't need anymore help. Today, 3 police officers shot, one critically injured.

Another peaceful day in Chicago according to the crackpot Mayor. She's too busy looking at artwork and getting her hair done to concern herself with innocent children & cops getting shot.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot
@chicagosmayor

"To this day, we have managed to work with over 50 artists from all of the Chicago area, and we began to see the powerful impact that their messages had on every community that we have touched."


3 Chicago Police Officers Shot, 2 Others Injured While Trying To Arrest Man In Belmont Cragin
The Thursday morning shooting happened at a police station as officers tried to arrest a man.


protest #mobattack #chicagopolicedepartment
49 Chicago Police Officers injured in Organised Attack During Last Week End Protest July 17, 2020

waybread said:

I might just mention that a vandal who broke a lot of windows in Minneapolis, nicknamed Umbrella Man, was arrested. Turns out he's a white supremacist and Hells Angel who wanted to start a race war.

I wonder how many others like him are causing vandalism.

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More peaceful protests Way Bread?

“Throwing IEDs and bricks at police officers, throwing projectiles at and striking police horses, and setting police cruisers on fire are not the protected First Amendment activities of a peaceful protest; they are criminal acts that violate federal law,” Brady, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. “We will continue to identify and prosecute these agitators, whose acts of violence hijacked a lawful protest and undermined a message of equality with one of destruction.”

The charges include throwing projectiles at police cars and destroying police vehicles by hitting, kicking, stomping on them or setting them on fire. The charges also include throwing projectiles at police officers, including one instance of a potentially explosive device, and bank burglary.

“The FBI respects the rights of people to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms but will not stand by and let those with a violent agenda take over peaceful protests,” said FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Michael Christman.


We NEED law and order NOW. Violent riots in Portland and other cities have to stop.

President Trump threatened to mobilize the National Guard in response to unrest in Portland “if they don’t solve that problem locally very soon.”
The governor of Oregon and the Trump administration announced an agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions outside the federal courthouse in Portland, where federal agents have repeatedly clashed with demonstrators during nightly unrest.

Portland is now the focal point of nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. But many other cities are affected.

In Seattle, in neighbouring Washington state, authorities said rocks, bottles and fireworks were thrown at officers who used flash bangs and pepper spray.

“**** the feds,” shouted a young woman in a helmet and gas mask who declined to give her name. “You want war? We’ll give you war. We will win.”

More than 5,000 people, one of the largest crowds to date, turned out for the protest .


Nothing but 'peaceful protests' with police being violently attacked, Federal Agents being attacked, government property and police cars set on fire. A
dump truck in Portland was set on fire. Courthouse fences torn down every night. More 'peaceful protests'.


The ONLY positive emanating from the violent mobs is the citizens know who to vote for if they want peace. Trump's re-election is secured now.

waybread said:

I might just mention that a vandal who broke a lot of windows in Minneapolis, nicknamed Umbrella Man, was arrested. Turns out he's a white supremacist and Hells Angel who wanted to start a race war.

I wonder how many others like him are causing vandalism.

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Blackbery, you are writing just as Donald Trump wishes you to think. He's hoping to portray himself as the Law and Order president. Unfortunately his ham-fisted approach to mobilizing federal officers is backfiring, as it is only stimulating more demonstrations.

Burning and looting is all that Trump, Fox News, and other right-wing media outlets want you to see. They don't want you to see the thousands of peaceful demonstrators who are doing nothing of the kind, because such images will not help Trump's re-election hopes. They are hoping that you will get as hysterical and frightened as possible, and thus turn to Trump as some kind of savior. When in fact, if he tramples on demonstrators' rights, he could just as easily trample on yours.

Did you follow the pictures of Portland's Wall of Moms and Leaf-Blower Dads? Not one of them is throwing rocks or breaking windows.

Have you ever been tear-gassed? I was, twice, during the early 1970s, a period of major campus unrest. I wasn't demonstrating for anything-- merely trying to walk home through my university campus when I made the mistake of taking the most direct route.

Tear gas is really horrible stuff, notably when it gets in your eyes, and it has no place in any demonstration sanctioned by the First Amendment to the Constitution. People chanting, holding banners, and marching are fully protected by the Constitution. But Trump's campaign team don't want you to know that.

If you ever choose to demonstrate on behalf of a cause near and dear to your heart and you are not billy-clubbed or tear gassed by the police, by all means, thank a Democrat.

We both totally agree that the protections for peaceable assembly under the Constitution does not include physical violence or vandalism. We both totally agree that rates of gun violence and violence against police officers are high and unacceptable.

But you might wish to look at some of the causes of ongoing urban violence: drug cartels, addiction, gangs, rogue police officers, the NRA, and inadequate mental health services.

"Defund the police" does not mean "abolish the police," but taking a hard look at how to address these root causes of disturbances.



There is now a neo-Nazi group in the US, calling itself White Lives Matter. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/white-lives-matter

You can read about other white supremacist groups here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/tech/white-supremacists-telegram-racism-intl/index.html

There is some evidence, although it is contested, that white supremacists recently infiltrated a Black Lives matter demonstration in Richmond, Virginia.

LOL, Dirius. Your cartoon character looks like a white supremacist infiltrator to me.

We can get back to reality on this thread eventually.

The reality is that BLM have done nothing to address the gang violence, have created mob violence to the tune of one billion, attacked innocent civilians (7 killed, mainly black), killed 3 police officials and created chaos, mayhem and carnage in major cities throughout the country. Many people are fighting back against them, painting over their BLM murals, having dueling opposition protests and the most important thing is that the President has ordered in Federal Agents to help the local and state police who are being attacked daily with lasers to try to blind them, bricks and fireworks thrown at them and so forth. Hundreds have been attacked, some very critically in order to do their job.

The BLM riots are out of control and that is the sad reality of the sheer destruction these domestic terrorists and thugs have done. Complete anarchy, radical Marxist ideology and violent, illegal acts.

The Law and Order Trump the only person who is stopping the madness.

Chicago Alderman fighting with his Democrat Mayor Lightweight Lightfoot who wants to have less police. The recent surge in gun violence, rapes, assaults, robberies don't concern her. She calls the police a dangerous 'military threat' and some Democratic officials are finally speaking out. The alderman also slammed the house speaker for calling Federal Agents 'storm troopers'.
These same Agents put their lives on the line to protect every member of congress and would be there to defend them if the angry mob went to their homes, ripped down their fences and attempted to break down their front doors. Federal Agents work to uphold the Constitutional and to defend the citizens of the USA no matter if they are rich or poor, black or white.

Democrats need to know that the personnel sent to protect federal facilities in Portland are sworn civilian federal law enforcement officers, not active duty military personnel.
Reports indicating otherwise are irresponsible and inaccurate. To equate them to the Nazi regime is despicable.

Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of potentially endangering America’s law enforcement community by likening the federal officers occupying Portland, Ore., to the “stormtroopers” of Nazi Germany.

As looters were ransacking businesses throughout the city , Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th), one of her harshest critics, engaged in an angry and foul-mouthed argument over the city’s handling of the widespread violence.

Police have had enough of the Democrats using them as punching bags for their partisan politics. They have banded together in solidarity to protect themselves.


Florida’s largest police union: Re-elect President Donald Trump to keep America safe

The president of the largest police union in Florida appeared on “Fox & Friends” Friday to explain why the organization is supporting President Trump.

“I spelled it out on what’s going on not just in Florida but across this country that, ‘Hey, you know what, we’re getting beat up. We’re getting used like a punching bag and we’re tired of it and President Donald Trump has been there for us. He supported us.’”

waybread said:

LOL, Dirius. Your cartoon character looks like a white supremacist infiltrator to me.

We can get back to reality on this thread eventually.

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That is funny because it's so true. The only thing missing is an arrow pointing to the peace sign tattoo on the inner wrist because that's what every white, woke, peaceful protester has.

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blackbery said:

The reality is that BLM have done nothing to address the gang violence, have created mob violence to the tune of one billion, attacked innocent civilians (7 killed, mainly black), killed 3 police officials and created chaos, mayhem and carnage in major cities throughout the country.

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These figures are inflated, Blackbery. It would be nice if you could state your case without the hysterics.

Black Lives Matter demonstrations were undertaken to address a specific problem: too many innocent African Americans dying at the hands of the police or white vigilantes. Black Lives Matter was not established to deal with many other important causes, any more than the PTA was established to save the whales.

Just because the Black Lives Matter movement does not address the other issues you raise does not somehow negate the significance of the Black Lives Matter social justice agenda-- which is not one that you seem to care about.

As you know, some of the demonstrations have been accompanied by others who simply want to cause mayhem. They are not interested in BlacK Lives Matter except as a pretext to vandalize. It is not fair to blame the overwhelming majority of peaceful demonstrators for the bad actors.

We both agree that vandalism is wrong. Most BLM protesters did not harm any property.

Unfortunately Trump's federal agents in Portland did nothing but inflame the situation. Thankfully they are withdrawing.

I was not able to verify your $1 billion property damage estimate. Frankly, it's up to the insurance agencies to calculate it. Wikipedia gives a $500 million figure, with 2 deaths, not 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg...lence had resulted,the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Many people are fighting back against them, painting over their BLM murals, having dueling opposition protests and the most important thing is that the President has ordered in Federal Agents to help the local and state police who are being attacked daily with lasers to try to blind them, bricks and fireworks thrown at them and so forth. Hundreds have been attacked, some very critically in order to do their job.

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Where are you getting your news, Blackbery? Fox?? You have a very distorted picture.

We agree that throwing potentially lethal objects is wrong. I also happen to think that spraying peaceful demonstrators with tear gas is wrong.

Some of the "dueling protesters"are heavily armed right-wing guys who are trying to function as unauthorized semi-militias. Look up the American Wolf counter-protesters, the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Patriot Prayer, Boogaloo, and their kind. These guys are not innocent peace-keepers.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...ly-outnumbered-again-ends-violence-close-call

The BLM riots are out of control and that is the sad reality of the sheer destruction these domestic terrorists and thugs have done. Complete anarchy, radical Marxist ideology and violent, illegal acts.

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Blackbery, repeating your same old debunked tropes does not make you more correct. It just makes you mistaken more often.

The Law and Order Trump the only person who is stopping the madness.

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Heaven help us all.

Trump is a far more serious madness.

I think you've been watching too many Trump campaign ads on Fox News.

The pro-Trump, self-appointed, armed, unauthorized vigilante enforcement gangs are predicted to intimidate voters in the less affluent Democratic districts, illegally demanding to see I.D.s and proof of residence.

The Democrat Portland Mayor who has called the BLM riots 'peaceful' being hit hard with REALITY.

Portland mayor blasts protesters: ‘You are attempting to commit murder’

We've been telling him this for months while he's been living in denial. The property damage, the looting, the killing, the carnage has all been fine & okay with him until now. He finally has seen the light, 6 months on.


“You are not demonstrating — you are attempting to commit murder,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Thursday in a hastily called news conference alongside Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell. Wheeler also warned that the city anticipated more “attacks on public buildings” in the immediate future

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That is funny because it's so true. The only thing missing is an arrow pointing to the peace sign tattoo on the inner wrist because that's what every white, woke, peaceful protester has.

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On the one hand, you claim they are 'peaceful' & then you claim they are being run by vigilante, armed pro-Trump gangs. Which one is correct for they contradict one another.

All we know is that the reporting by the media has been totally inaccurate, claiming the protests were peaceful while one billion property damage was taking place. At least 7 black people were killed during the 'peaceful' protests.
The Democrats call the police 'brutal' and akin to Nazis yet it's other citizen's lives they are protecting as well as personal and government property.

The Voice of America, the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s flagship operation, is putting its own spin on coverage of the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States.

It’s a spin consistent with much of the rest of the mainstream media—the CNNs of the world—and hardly represents an accurate image of what is going on in America today.

An Aug. 1 Associated Press story run by the VOA about events in Portland, Oregon, described the nature of the protests, which it said have now become so peaceful that federal forces could be withdrawn: “Portland Protest Strives for Peace as U.S. Forces Drawn Down.”

In fact, the presence of federal agents comes across as provoking violence, and their removal as the way to calm the waters. The demonstrations sound positive, even idyllic.

Despite the fact that the feds were actually invited in to stop explosive violence raging out of control in Portland, with the widespread destruction of property and lives as a consequence

The viewpoints generally expressed in these Voice of America articles are those of demonstrators, protesters, and rioters, and indistinguishable from coverage in The New York Times or The Washington Post.

Meanwhile, the violence of the riots, the vandalism against property and American history and culture, and the Marxist roots of Black Lives Matter are not covered.

American taxpayers fund the Voice of America and the other news networks of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The very least they should ask for is balance in reporting, and they are not even getting that.

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The pro-Trump, self-appointed, armed, unauthorized vigilante enforcement gangs are predicted to intimidate voters in the less affluent Democratic districts, illegally demanding to see I.D.s and proof
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blackbery said:

On the one hand, you claim they are 'peaceful' & then you claim they are being run by vigilante, armed pro-Trump gangs. Which one is correct for they contradict one another.

All we know is that the reporting by the media has been totally inaccurate, claiming the protests were peaceful while one billion property damage was taking place. At least 7 black people were killed during the 'peaceful' protests.
The Democrats call the police 'brutal' and akin to Nazis yet it's other citizen's lives they are protecting as well as personal and government property.

The Voice of America, the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s flagship operation, is putting its own spin on coverage of the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States.

It’s a spin consistent with much of the rest of the mainstream media—the CNNs of the world—and hardly represents an accurate image of what is going on in America today.

An Aug. 1 Associated Press story run by the VOA about events in Portland, Oregon, described the nature of the protests, which it said have now become so peaceful that federal forces could be withdrawn: “Portland Protest Strives for Peace as U.S. Forces Drawn Down.”

In fact, the presence of federal agents comes across as provoking violence, and their removal as the way to calm the waters. The demonstrations sound positive, even idyllic.

Despite the fact that the feds were actually invited in to stop explosive violence raging out of control in Portland, with the widespread destruction of property and lives as a consequence

The viewpoints generally expressed in these Voice of America articles are those of demonstrators, protesters, and rioters, and indistinguishable from coverage in The New York Times or The Washington Post.

Meanwhile, the violence of the riots, the vandalism against property and American history and culture, and the Marxist roots of Black Lives Matter are not covered.

American taxpayers fund the Voice of America and the other news networks of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The very least they should ask for is balance in reporting, and they are not even getting that.

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The Feds were NOT "invited in" by the Mayor of Portland or the Governor of Oregon.
They were unilaterally dispatched there by the Dictator-in-Chief.