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John Carlson's avatar

Is it not possible to successfully sue Portland for not upholding their obligation to pursue criminals?

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Andy Ngo's avatar

Only if the claim is that based on a protected characteristic, assistance was denied.

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John Carlson's avatar

So those with "protected characteristics" are more equal than those without? Hmm.

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Patricia Anderson's avatar

A number of anarchists carried out assassinations and bombings during the period of "propaganda of the deed" from the 1890s to 1914, killing political leaders across Europe and the United States.

Notable anarchist killers from 1890 to 1914 include:

Sante Geronimo Caserio: An Italian baker who assassinated French President Marie François Sadi Carnot in 1894 by stabbing him. Caserio committed the act to avenge other anarchists who had been executed.

Michele Angiolillo: An Italian anarchist who shot and killed Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo in 1897.

Luigi Lucheni: Another Italian anarchist, he assassinated Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898 by stabbing her with a sharpened needle file.

Gaetano Bresci: An Italian-American weaver who returned to Italy and assassinated King Umberto I in 1900. Bresci cited the 1898 Bava-Beccaris massacre, where the king had authorized the army to fire on protestors, as his motive.

Leon Czolgosz: A Polish-American anarchist who shot and killed U.S. President William McKinley in 1901 during the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Manuel Pardiñas: A Spanish anarchist who assassinated Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas in Madrid in 1912. Pardiñas shot himself immediately after the assassination.

Alexandros Schinas: A Greek anarchist who assassinated King George I of Greece in 1913. Schinas was tortured and died in prison, reportedly by jumping from a window.

Galleanists (followers of Luigi Galleani): This Italian insurrectionary anarchist group was responsible for multiple bombings and terrorist acts in the United States. In 1914, they were involved in a bomb plot in New York that killed three anarchists and one civilian.

The context of anarchist assassinations

The violence committed by these individuals was part of a larger anarchist strategy known as "propaganda of the deed." Adherents believed that such acts would inspire mass revolution by exposing the vulnerability of the state and igniting social change.

It did inspire the Russia revolution and the cruel murders of the Czar and his wife and daughters and his son.

The antifa tells the "antifascist" lie to low-information well-meaning liberals who may (rightly) fear they are being led down the path to totalitarian hell. Antifa is opposed to preserving our Republic. Antifa is opposed to laws that protect our lives, our property rights and our freedom of expression. Antifa is anarchy, cruelty and injustice. If you believe their propaganda you will learn the same hard lesson totalitarians have forced upon well-meaning but gullible populations for nearly two centuries. "Don't be fooled" means don't be made a fool.

Propaganda of the deed is being carried out in our time by the so-called "nonexistent" antifa,

most recently the murder of #charliekirk

DON"T BE FOOLED

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Seems to me the Weather Underground was basically the same in the 1960s.

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