When you look at him, you wouldn’t think that he’s the one person in America who literally has more experience than anyone else at containing a riot. But Attorney General Bill Barr is. A lot of us forget that this isn’t Barr’s first stint as the US AG. He was also Attorney General back in 1993, when the George HW Bush administration quelled the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. He’s done this before – and it’s starting to show.
I know this for a fact because the looters rolled into my town a couple of nights ago, only to discover that there’s a new sheriff in town.
If you’ve been on social media at all the past few days, you’ve probably seen the random stacks of cheap paving bricks lined up in places ahead of time before one of the “peaceful” BLM protests is scheduled to take place. There’s never any construction or landscaping projects going on nearby. It’s just these random piles of bricks in the commercial districts in cities like Houston and Los Angeles. How convenient!
It’s painfully clear that the anarchist group that President Trump just designated as domestic terrorists is behind a lot of this. The same thing keeps happening over and over again with these riots. The anarchists roll up with their little black masks and spaghetti arms, jump out of a vehicle and start smashing in the windows of businesses. The BLM protesters then get excited and start looting the place. By the time the TV cameras show up, the Democrat party’s militant anarchist group has jumped back in their vehicles and drove on to the next protest site and the media points their cameras at the gleeful BLM crowds running around with flatscreen TVs. Rinse. Repeat.
There was a BLM protest in my town finally, several days after the nationwide riots had already kicked off. And sure enough, a bunch of anarchists in two vehicles rolled up at the protest site (a shopping mall parking lot – because where else would you have a “protest?”). We’re an hour outside of LA County, and it’s been remarkably peaceful up until that evening.
The anarchists were all carrying walkie talkies and had earpieces in. They proceeded to run up to a big box store and started smashing the windows. That was the moment when a bunch of plainclothes officers stepped out of the crowd of BLM protesters and drew their guns on the anarchists. Nobody saw that coming.
The anarchists had posted their plans to loot that specific store on social media that night – and our local police force was already there waiting for them. Instead of allowing the looting and rioting to take place, which we’ve seen in every major Democrat-run city across the country, the local cops here nipped it in the bud immediately. They rolled up every anarchist and threw them in jail. And because you can hold a suspect for 48 hours before charging them – they’re all still in jail, instead of running around starting more riots and looting in more locations. No instant bail. No springing them immediately because of a fake concern over coronavirus. And hopefully no air conditioning.
There’s actually a lot of research into mob behavior that’s been conducted since the 1960s. Riots and looting can always result from an otherwise peaceful protest. All it takes is for a small handful of agitators or criminals to throw a few rocks or a Molotov cocktail – and the mob mentality takes over. A lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t normally loot a store will suddenly join in with the rest of the mob.
Every police department in the country knows this and has known it since the 1960s race riots. Every police department also knows that riots and looting can be contained and has a contingency plan in place to do this. The moment the first rock is thrown, you send in the bruisers to rough up and arrest the instigators. When the rest of the protesters see the instigators losing a few teeth or sustaining a broken collarbone – no one else riots. Overwhelming force and immediate consequences can make a crowd fall back in line and behave. But a police force has to do it right from the get-go.
Makes you wonder why the cops in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and other places didn’t do that right from the start?
Other than the windows that the anarchists busted initially, things have been quiet in my town since then. I suspect now that Bill Barr is instructing law enforcement to bust the anarchists first, the riots will continue calming down from here on out (hope I’m not wrong).
And for the record, protesters with earpieces and walkie talkies are not protesters. Looks like the Chinese have been providing some paramilitary training to these guys – which is why the anarchists have been so quiet up until an election year. They’ve been training.
