It’s a question many have been asking: Who is paying for the weapons, transportation, coordination, supplies, and personnel who have been running amok on American streets for months?
This has been far from a spontaneous situation. It has been a paramilitary operation coordinated by a shadowy hand (or hands) with a command structure and logistical network. But who has their hands on the joysticks directing all this mass mayhem? Colorado Congressman Ken Buck (R) wants to find out.
“The Justice Department needs to open an investigation into who is funding these violent riots,” Buck tweeted on Sunday.
The Justice Department needs to open an investigation into who is funding these violent riots.
— Rep. Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) August 30, 2020 [1]
“If the Tea Party threatened a Democrat Senator and assaulted police officers like this, it would be leading CNN. Every conservative politician would be asked to condemn it. Where is the outrage?”
Where indeed? Unless the very people who are supposed to be objectively covering this unrest are instead the public relations arm of the very violent rioters they are covering. Then, it makes more sense. Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, especially after what he and his wife went through last Thursday night after the Republican National Convention, also wants some answers.
“They were talking about their mob activities and even saying they thought we were here on this floor,” Paul wrote. “We had to develop a 3 a.m. plan with Capitol Police to get to safety.”
“My question is: Who are these people? Who paid for their hotel rooms? Who flew them in? Law enforcement needs to look at the funding of violent criminal activity like this. And national Democrats need to confront it. It’s organized. It’s paid for. It’s violent. It’s not about black lives or any lives; it’s about anarchy and destruction. The American people are starting to catch on and grow tired of it. So I ask Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris this: Will you stand up finally and denounce this violence and destruction? Will you quit inciting it and urge other leaders to do the same?”
Senator Paul’s wife, who was with him when they were both assaulted by Antifa last Thursday, also commented, “The mob swarmed me and my husband, Sen. Rand Paul, in a tight circle, screaming expletives, threats, and shouting, ‘Say her name.’ We rushed up to two police officers, and I believe that is the only thing that kept us from being knocked to the ground. Even pressed against the officers, we were greatly outnumbered… The Associated Press is reporting that Rand used the word ‘attack’ to describe our ordeal ‘without evidence.’ This is disgusting and utter proof of their bias. When you are surrounded by throngs of people screaming in your face and preventing you from getting away, that is an attack.”
In related news, police have revealed that most of the Kenosha rioters were not from Kenosha. Fox News reports, “At least 175 people have been arrested during the recent civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis., with 102 having addresses listed outside of the city, according to numbers released by police on Sunday.”
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— Kenosha Police Dept. (@KenoshaPolice) August 31, 2020 [3]
Fox News expounded: “Thirty-four were arrested for violating curfew. The charges ranged from carrying concealed weapons, burglary and possession of controlled substances, police said. More than 20 firearms were seized. At least three vehicles were towed and all were related to ‘active criminal investigations.'” Not from Kenosha and armed. Who is paying for the weapons and the transportation?
This piece was written by David Kamioner on August 31, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette [4] and is used by permission.
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Senator Rand Paul: Mob who attacked him and his wife were paid out-of-towners, calls for them to be arrested [5]
Ex-Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher blasts NBA players for their boycott [6]
America creeps closer to open insurrection on its streets [7]