{"id":1647,"date":"2017-04-24T19:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:11:39","slug":"battle-berkeley-patriots-beat-anti-american-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/04\/battle-berkeley-patriots-beat-anti-american-left.html","title":{"rendered":"The “Battle of Berkeley”: When Patriots Beat the Anti-American Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is nothing less than an unmitigated disgrace that hate-consumed leftist<\/em> ideologues have been permitted to unleash violence<\/a> upon their political opponents for at least as long as Donald Trump has been a serious contender for the presidency.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been an explosion of political violence in America, and it is all courtesy of leftist thugs, or \u201cprotesters,\u201d as their sophistic ideological ilk in the media routinely describe them.\u00a0 It is thugs, not lawful protesters, who have spared no occasion to assault those who, in labeling them as \u201cfascists<\/a>,\u201d \u201cracists<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cneo-Nazis<\/a>,\u201d they have rendered non-persons.<\/p>\n

The latest incarnation of militant leftist hatred is the so-called \u201cblack bloc<\/a>,\u201d the \u201canti-fa\u201d (short for \u201canti-fascists\u201d).\u00a0 These are the vermin that conceal their faces with bandanas while dressing in black. \u00a0These domestic terrorists<\/a> roam in packs of considerable numbers.\u00a0 Loud, abrasive, and obnoxious, they can be counted upon to destroy property and attack both civilians and police officers by way of a range of weaponry<\/a>, from bear mace, pepper spray, and knives, to flagpoles, bottles, rocks, and sticks of dynamite.<\/p>\n

These phony \u201canti-fascists\u201d also have a predilection for burning the American flag while chanting such pearls of wisdom as \u201cf**k AmeriKKKa!\u201d<\/p>\n

They are not anti-fascists.\u00a0 <\/em>They are anti-American.\u00a0 <\/em>From this point onward, they will be referred to as such.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Americans aren\u2019t just opposed to American policies.\u00a0 They hate as well American citizens\u2014at least as long as the latter reject their militant communist ideology.\u00a0 And it makes no difference whether those who they deem their opponents are elderly<\/a>, children<\/a>, or women<\/a>. Anyone who the Anti-Americans regard as insufficiently \u201cprogressive\u201d is fair game for physical attack.<\/p>\n

By rioting, the Anti-Americans became especially emboldened when they succeeded in shutting down Milo<\/a> Yiannopoulos\u2019s speaking engagement at Berkeley back in February.\u00a0 Thus, they thought that they would be equally successful on April 15 in stopping a \u201cPatriot\u2019s Day\u201d rally<\/a> that was scheduled to be held in their home town.<\/p>\n

They were sorely mistaken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Pro-Americans have wised up.\u00a0 Having learned the hard way that the hard left is no less intolerant and violent than any other irrational force of nature, the Patriots converged on Berkeley in numbers comparable to those that formed the black bloc.\u00a0 And they came ready and willing to literally, physically fight for the Constitutional rights of all Americans.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of patriotic men sported helmets, goggles, and protective devices for their chests and knees.\u00a0 They had weapons, too, but, being law-abiding citizens, they put up no fuss when Berkeley police, outrageously<\/em>, disarmed them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Anti-Americans\u2014sporting military-grade tear gas canisters, M-80\u2019s, flag poles, bottles, and stones\u2014arrived to cause mayhem, the police reportedly disappeared.\u00a0 The patriots, though, not only stood their ground.<\/p>\n

They won.<\/p>\n

While the Pro-American forces sustained some injuries, they gave more than what they got, bloodying and humiliating the neo-communist terrorists. As the growing internet sensation and freedom fighter, Kyle Chapman, aka the \u201cBased Stick Man<\/a>,\u201d put it, the Anti-Americans had \u201ctheir asses handed to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed.\u00a0 The Patriots pulverized the Anti-Americans terrorists and chased <\/em>them out of town<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let this register: Pro-Trump, pro-American right-wingers<\/em> beat and chased militant leftist communists from, of all places, Berkeley, <\/em>the bluest of blue cities, the home of American \u201cprogressivism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victors are now hailing this as the \u201cBattle of Berkeley<\/a>,\u201d the moment when Americans put the whole left on notice that all attempts to silence them through intimidation and force would henceforth be met with the same.\u00a0 Video footage of the event is all over the internet.\u00a0 Readers can easily see for themselves that this truly was an epic battle, something that, given the sight of hundreds of people slugging one another in smoke-filled streets and the sounds of sticks of dynamite detonating, seemed even theatrical\u2014like the dawning of a civil war.<\/p>\n

The Based Stick Man, who now heads the military wing of Proud Boys<\/a>, Gavin McInnes\u2019 right-wing protection squad, warns the anti-fa in a video that \u201cwe\u201d will be coming to every \u201cliberal stronghold\u201d in the country.\u00a0 If the terrorist thugs plan on executing their anti-American designs in the future, he assures them that the right will replicate the beat down that the left suffered in Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Something in American politics has changed.\u00a0 The hatred, intolerance, and violence of the left have finally provoked a very specific type of reaction, a phenomenon that, for all of the left\u2019s dishonest hysteria, no one is accustomed to witnessing:<\/p>\n

Right-leaning Americans who are using force to meet, and prevail over, the left\u2019s use of force.<\/p>\n

On April 28, Ann Coulter, who is friends with Gavin McInnes, will appear to speak at Berkeley\u2014in spite of the fact that Berkeley administrators, citing \u201csafety\u201d considerations, tried cancelling her event.\u00a0 An ever expanding army of Deplorables\u2014Bikers for Trump<\/a>, the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, military veterans, and, quite possibly, Academi<\/a> (formerly known as Blackwater)\u2014are already organizing protection.\u00a0 If anti-American politicians insist upon ordering local police to stand down so that rabid leftist punks can terrorize innocents, the Patriots, from this point onward, will meet them head on.<\/p>\n

Recruiting efforts are under way.\u00a0 So too is the machinery for a system of legal support for those Deplorable activists that get arrested for busting the heads of left-wing terrorists.<\/p>\n

What we witnessed at the Battle of Berkeley is the birth of something quite new, a phenomenon entirely different from your parents\u2019 or grandparents\u2019 Republican Party-style \u201cconservatism.\u201d It is not the Religious Right, the Moral Majority, or even the Tea Party.\u00a0 The fake news hacks, the anti-fa terrorists\u2019 propagandists, have spared no occasion to manipulate Americans into thinking that conservatism or right-wing ideas are limited to aging baby-boomers.<\/p>\n

The Patriots or Deplorables, if you will, put the lie to this. Young (Generation X and millennials), patriotic, and incensed over the violent attempts to subvert the country that they love, these \u201cconservatives\u201d won\u2019t just wave flags; they\u2019ll take poles and fists to the skulls of American-haters who would harm those with whom they disagree.<\/p>\n

More will be written on this subject in the future. After all, as long as the left radicalizes, the Deplorables\u2019 forces will grow. In the meantime, all eyes next weekend should be on Berkeley for when Ann Coulter makes her appearance.<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s bullying days may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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