Army Bob: Don’t overlook leftists’ history of violence

by Robert M. Traxler

Violence is never the answer, but… demonstrators should not attack the police, but… arson should not be tolerated, but… burning police stations, killing 20 police officers is not right, but … burning private businesses is wrong, but… looting is not protesting, but… occupying government buildings is not right, but using weapons of war is not protesting, but.

For the last four years we have seen leftist, socialist demonstrations, riots, burning, looting, murder and the takeover of sections of cities by armed leftists. The media was a cheerleader for them, a CNN reporter even saying a demonstration was mostly peaceful as several vehicles burned violently in the background during his report.

Democrat leaders to include Vice President Harris raised money to pay legal fees for those arrested. Folks, you cannot make this stuff up.

Socialist demonstrators attacked the White House, and the media ridiculed the President for going into a secure location during the attack, and rationalized the violence as necessary, even patriotic. The destruction of statues to various American leaders also was celebrated as necessary to emphasize the criminal American history.

But the media forgets the socialist outrages of the past and condemns the right for doing the same type of things in our nation’s capital. These are the same folks who cheered the attackers who stormed the White House, telling us we must understand why they did what they did in attacking the government. Folks, you cannot make this stuff up.

The media has told us Jan. 6, 2021, is the first time the capital was invaded by protesters. Really? March 1st, 1954, an armed group of leftist Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the House, wounding five congressmen. On the fourth of July 1915,  the Senate was bombed by a Harvard University professor angry over the American support of the allies in WW I.

March 1, 1971, Bill Ayers’ organization, the Weather Underground, bombed the United States Senate.  Mr. Ayres and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn later (after Ms. Dohrn got out of prison) became friends of President Obama’s family in his later life and a hero of the American political and academic left. In 1998, a gunman killed two Capitol police officers while attempting to kill the Republican House Majority Whip Thomas DeLay.

Ask yourself: why were some Democrats fans of the Capitol police who saved them, but changed their minds after political correctness and the cancel culture told them to? How does that work? Perhaps the American left needs to defund the Capitol police? Retrain them to use persuasion and not force, to be more sensitive?

Even after the Capitol police protected the members of congress, some committed socialists are maintaining they are racists and white supremacist, and even President-elect Biden alluded to that. Really? A white female protester was shot and killed by the police; if she had been a BLM member all hell would be breaking loose nationwide.

To the leftist folks and their cheerleaders in the media and the socialist movement, molotov cocktails are weapons of war. A bit of history: The Finnish Army, outnumbered and out gunned, were fighting a Soviet Socialist invasion in 1936. The Russians were a tank-heavy force, and the Finns had a dearth of light anti-tank weapons, so they came up with the firebomb and named it after Vyacheslav Molotov, a leading socialist politician in Russia, serving him a cocktail.

The weapon was amazingly effective aginst Russian armor, as they stored the main gun munitions open in the turret. Firebombs are indeed bombs, that is why we call them bombs.

It is interesting that people who for four years were burning and occupying buildings, looting, attacking the police, throwing firebombs, rocks, frozen water bottles and excrement at police and responsible for 21 deaths are demonstrators, to be understood and celebrated, even rewarded.

So will we see consistency from the defund the police folks who have maintained that we must understand the frustration of the “protesters,” even those using violence, weapons of war and those who called them patriotic, folks like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Kamala Harris?

Not a chance in hell. Socialist violence is celebrated as necessary, even patriotic, but violence in support of the Constitution is criminal; welcome to bias in reporting in the era of the cancel culture.

Please remember that billionaires censoring free speech for profit is not a liberal action. My opinion.