{"id":6293,"date":"2020-06-01T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:40:09","slug":"dear-rioters-and-looters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/dear-rioters-and-looters\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAR RIOTERS AND LOOTERS:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear rioters\nand looters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I\u2019m not\naddressing demonstrators. There\u2019s a difference, even if the mainstream media\ncan\u2019t bring itself to say so.&nbsp; If you\nwant to peacefully demonstrate, no problem. You know who you are. Some of you\nhave already held back The Others, or tried to, and in at least one instance I\nknow of have saved a cop who was cut off from his team-mates and surrounded by\nan angry mob of The Others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m\naddressing The Others \u2013 the rioters, the looters, the destroyers. There are\nstrong indications that Antifa is involved, though I can\u2019t say they\u2019re <em>entirely <\/em>responsible. But you heartfelt\ndemonstrators are the ones they\u2019ve made into cat\u2019s paws and puppets with their\ninstigation to violence, and if you go along with them you\u2019re shaming yourselves\nand everything you\u2019re trying to stand for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one can\nseriously believe that looting and burning stores, often owned by hard-working\nblack people for whom their business is their only livelihood, is doing anyone\nany good.&nbsp; But, looters and arsonists and\ndestroyers, if all you care about is yourselves\u2026well, let\u2019s talk about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police\nhave held back thus far (I write this on the first of June). It\u2019s partly\npolitical correctness on the part of local government leaders, and partly the\nreluctance of police to use force, whether you choose to believe that or\nnot.&nbsp; But the time will come, if you\ncontinue, when even the most pusillanimous leader will say, \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d\nAnd that\u2019s when the shooting will start coming your way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the\nfollowing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawenforcementtoday.com\/antifa-warns-alert-f-the-city-tonight-we-move-into-the-residential-areas\/\">https:\/\/www.lawenforcementtoday.com\/antifa-warns-alert-f-the-city-tonight-we-move-into-the-residential-areas\/<\/a>\n.&nbsp; The source quoted is not the only one\nof The Others to publicly express that sentiment.&nbsp; For your own good, hear me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mood of the Courts today is that human life has a\ngreater value than \u201cmere property.\u201d I and virtually all other past and present\ncops I know share that belief. It\u2019s why you haven\u2019t been shot down in the\nstreets yet as you would have been by now in so many other countries.&nbsp; But, understand this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you start attacking homes \u2013 occupied dwellings \u2013 the\nrules change. Arson of occupied dwellings is what the law calls a \u201cheinous\nfelony against the person,\u201d and ordinary citizens are allowed to shoot you to\nstop you from doing it. You\u2019ve gotten away with breaking into stores that were\nclosed for the safety of their employees and customers, but if you try to do\nthe same to people\u2019s homes, that\u2019s \u201cviolent and tumultuous entry of occupied\ndwellings.\u201d It\u2019s \u201chome invasion.\u201d And when you start doing that, the people who\nlive there are authorized by the law to shoot you to death in defense of\nthemselves and other innocent parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For you genuine, non-violent protesters: you\u2019ve made all the points you\u2019re going to make without turning the rest of the nation against you. If you haven\u2019t already, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"please harken to the words of Atlanta\u2019s African-American mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/8320880543830955516eecf1545fe103\" target=\"_blank\">please harken to the words of Atlanta\u2019s African-American mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you. And please, understand, what I\u2019ve written here is\nnot a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a well-intentioned warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear rioters and looters: No, I\u2019m not addressing demonstrators. There\u2019s a difference, even if the mainstream media can\u2019t bring itself to say so.&nbsp; If you want to peacefully demonstrate, no problem. You know who you are. Some of you have already held back The Others, or tried to, and in at least one instance I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}