“I’ll go through you to get the child!” This could perhaps be the message being sent, with more than 20 pro-life pregnancy centers having been fire-bombed or vandalized and more than a dozen churches having been targeted since the May leaking of the Supreme Court draft Roe v. Wade decision. Now, with the official ruling striking Roe down having been issued Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned churches to prepare for “extreme violence” as left-wing radicals have planned a “Night of Rage.”
Such threats haven’t exactly seemed a priority to the authorities, however. In May, Alice-in-Wonderland-style, the DHS issued a memo warning against “far-right” violence against abortion clinics; meanwhile, the government sat on its hands while the churches were targeted and ne’er-do-wells, in apparent violation of the law, protested in front of SCOTUS judges’ homes.
PJ Media reports on the story:
Roe v. Wade has at long last been overturned, and the Left’s response has been predictable: Leftists are pounding the walls and gnashing their teeth with rage and hatred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Make Mine a Double) has shouted that the decision is “illegitimate” and led pro-abortion activists in chants of “into the streets.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Unhinged) has proclaimed, “The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them!” But no one expects the supporters of Antifa and Black Lives Matter to confine their rage to words alone: even Old Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security paused from hunting for “white supremacists” on Friday to warn Catholic churches to prepare for a “night of rage.”
If there is violence at churches, it certainly won’t be anything new. Live Action’s Lila Rose pointed out Thursday that “Since the Dobbs v Jackson draft was leaked, pro-abortion activists have: -Vandalized 16 churches -Vandalized at least 16 pro-life pregnancy centers -Firebombed 4 pro-life pregnancy centers and offices -Attempted to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice Where’s the outrage?”
Where indeed? We can only imagine what would be happening now on CNN and in The New York Times if 16 abortion clinics had been vandalized, but the guardians of acceptable opinion can’t be bothered to deplore violence in the service of their pet causes.
Some may note, however, that there’s an odd congruence here: Why would those passionate about supporting the profound violence of tearing an unborn baby limb from limb not exhibit these violent tendencies in other areas and with older people?
But don’t ask the DHS. Having different concerns, it warned in its aforementioned May memo that Roe-decision-related violence could now be driven by “replacement theory.” Never mind that this “theory” is actually a strategy leftists themselves have boasted about implementing. The DHS stated in its memo nonetheless, “Some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists’ embrace of pro-life narratives may be linked to the perception of wanting to ‘save white children’ and ‘fight white genocide.’”
This is, of course, not a legitimate criminological analysis but the parroting of a media narrative that seeks to blame “white supremacists” for all our woes; it’s a misdiagnosis that leads to the wrong prescription — one, oddly, that includes ever more “normalization” power for the Left.
Unexplained is why white-replacement-theory racialists would be concerned about a phenomenon, abortion, whose victims are inordinately non-white and which, thus, slows the “replacement.” (Note: 55.4 percent of aborted babies are black or Hispanic even though those two groups comprise only 30 percent of the population.)
In reality, though, and as pointed out in my 2020 essay “Violence, Inc. A Leftist Enterprise,” the DHS’s concerns are fantasy. The “Left” was born in violence and is responsible for virtually all of the political variety today. The first leftists, the French revolutionaries, killed thousands in their “Reign of Terror.” A Reign of Error continued from that point, too, with the USSR’s Stalin, China’s Mao, Cambodia’s Pol Pot, and others adding hundreds of millions of corpses to the leftist total.
As for today, consider what leftists said in the midst of 2020’s 600-plus left-wing riots — which claimed dozens of lives — in regard to the prospect of late SCOTUS justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being replaced by President Trump. As the Daily Mail reported that year:
Reza Aslan, a religious scholar and former CNN host, tweeted to his 293,000 followers: “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f****** thing down.”
… Beau Willimon, a screenwriter who produced the U.S. version of House of Cards and the president of the Writers Guild of America, East, told his 164,000 followers: “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.”
… Author Aaron Gouveia, whose latest book is about toxic masculinity, tweeted: “F*** no. Burn it all down.”
And a professor of political science repeated calls for arson attacks on Congress.
Emmett Macfarlane, who teaches at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, tweeted: “Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.”
A member of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, responsible for administering state laws regarding campaign finance, ethics and lobbying, echoed the urging for violence.
When Ed Markey, senate candidate for Massachusetts, said that McConnell should not nominate a replacement in an election year, Scot Ross tweeted: “F****** A, Ed. If you can’t shut it down, burn it down.”
Now, question: Where is the “right-wing” analogue for any of this? That all the Left can point to is January 6, a one-off incident in which protesters killed no one, speaks volumes.
