Russians fight back with WarOnFakes

A site started by some Russian government linked activists to counter the media blitz:

It’s called War on Fakes.

Here’s their deconstruction of the alleged bombing of a maternity hospital, a story even the human rights organizations ran with, without so much as a peek into its credibility.

This piece refutes the allegation that Russians will use chemical weapons.

I’m going to check them out any time something fishy surfaces. Here’s to TRUTH winning.

Ukie Labs Studied Deadly Viruses, Targeted Slavs

The Russians have made further statements about the US biolabs in Ukraine, including the bombshell revelation that they collected serum samples specifically from Slavic people alone and sent them abroad to Germany and Australia.

The pathogens stocked and developed include some of the deadliest known to man, including anthrax, plague, brucellosis, H5N1 flu and others with a mortality rate over 50%.

Much of the documentation had already been removed and sent abroad, apparently to Poland, before the Russians discovered them, but there also remains employee testimony.

To be clear, the research was done completely under the supervision of American scientists. The studies ran to figuring out how to infect and then transmit pathogens through the migratory bird population, of which Ukraine is a hub, as well as how to use insect and bat vectors.

Details of the UP-4 project became known, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa and was designed for the period up to 2020.

Its purpose was to study the possibility of the spread of particularly dangerous infections through migrating birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, the mortality rate of which reaches 50 percent for humans, as well as Newcastle disease.

Due to the fact that Ukraine has a unique geographical location where transcontinental migration routes intersect, 145 biological species were studied within the framework of this project. At the same time, at least two species of migratory birds were identified, whose routes pass mainly through the territory of Russia. At the same time, information about migration routes passing through the countries of Eastern Europe was summarized.

Of all the methods developed in the United States to destabilize the epidemiological situation, this is one of the most reckless and irresponsible, since it does not allow to control the further development of the situation. This is confirmed by the course of the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, the occurrence and features of which raise many questions.

In addition, the R-781 project is interesting, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents.

Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses.
It is noteworthy that the research is carried out in close proximity to the borders of Russia – in the areas of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus.

The project is being implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian biological laboratories controlled by the Pentagon in cooperation with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the US Geological Survey.

The analyzed materials on the UP-8 project, aimed at studying the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine, clearly refute the US public statement that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists. One of the documents confirms that all serious high-risk studies are conducted under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States.

Did Amy Kremer and Chris Barron Sabotage the Capitol Rally?

Note: This still needs additional research and links, but I am posting it to identify how the walk to an area near the Capitol building was sabotaged.

SUSPECTED SABOTAGE OF JAN 6 EVENT BY WOMEN FOR AMERICA EMPLOYEES 

I previously posted the signed public statement by the founder of STOPTHESTEAL, Ali Alexander, that he has had information for some time that the march to the Capitol on January 6, 2021,  was sabotaged by two people, one of whom worked for Women For America First, a group founded by the Kremer family; the other is a Trump campaign advisor.

He adds that there was “at least one campaign advisor,” which suggests that there may have been more than two saboteurs.

STOPTHESTEAL is one of several groups involved in the two Capitol Hill events and was permitted to use Lot 8, near the Capitol building, for its ONE NATION UNDER GOD event. The first event, the Save America rally, was held at the Ellipse, which was permitted to Women For America First.

It is this group that Ali claims produced the two saboteurs.

WHO ARE THE SUSPECTED WOMEN FOR AMERICA FIRST SABOTEURS?

Women For America First put out this statement about the aftermath of the Capitol, denouncing the violence and distancing itself from it.

SUSPECTED SABOTEUR I:   CHRIS BARRON

Note: These are my suspicions based on the resumes of the people involved, their history of subversion. Most likely, the suspects acted through underlings whose names will only surface from a police investigation. However, the underlings would not have been able to act without the go ahead from their superiors. So, fingering these two people is justifiable in the context of the awful national consequences of what happened on January 6.

Barron’s Current Position

The founder of WAF is listed as Amy Kremer and the press statement gives a contact, Chris Barron. with an email address with the domain name rightturnstrategiesdc.com

Right Turn Strategies is a PR/lobbying/strategizing group, adept at working both inside and outside DC and they explain what they do thus:

“Within our communications practice we offer a variety of services including traditional public relations, marketing support and brand development, media training, and crisis management.  As a result, we are fluent in crafting both proactive and reactive strategies. We understand that some clients seek us out to raise their profiles- or that of their business- while others have come to us in an effort to stay “under the radar.” 

Experienced in both paradigms, we quickly assess the situation, and craft and execute a plan to further our client’s objective.  

More often than not, the most important component of a successful strategy is getting the messaging right for the targeted audience. In today’s world, this might mean crafting multiple, nuanced messages to reach different audiences.”

The reference to crisis management and under the radar operations suggests that the group might be adept at subverting a movement from within using deceptive techniques.

Chris Barron seems to be the “Trump campaign advisor” that Ali Alexander refers to in his allegation, since Barron’s biography at the end of a  piece on NeverTrumpers has this:

Chris Barron is President of Right Turn Strategies. He is a contributor to The Hill, and a regular on the Kennedy Show on FOX Business and Unfiltered on Headline News. He was a media surrogate for the Trump campaign and organized LGBT for Trump.

An LGBT advocate is going to have a hard time with the conservative Christian positions of the mainstream of the pro Trump movement and his presence in the campaign seems like a plant.

I think we have one of the two suspects in the sabotage.

Sabotage has also been the modus operandi of the Lincoln Project, which poses as Republican, but actually makes common cause with Democrats to subvert more traditional Republicans, in this case, Trump supporters.

Barron’s History of Subversion

Confirming this suspicion, only a few years ago, Chris Barron was the spokesman of a liberal Republican group [one that is Republican in Name Only] called Mainstream Republicans  whose sole purpose was to undermine limited government groups, like the Tea Party and Freedom Works, and substitute big government, liberal positions for theirs:

Main Street Advocacy, a Republican establishment advocacy group that received seed money from K street, is an organization created expressly to fight limited-government groups who challenge Republican Party officials and to promote liberal and moderate Republicans in government positions.

The group believes that the Tea Party is costing them valuable seats in the Congress.

So Barron has a history of creating astroturf Republican outfits, using money from K street, which was created to finance groups advocating lower taxes,  to undermine genuine grass-roots small government outfits.  To make the situation worse, the original Tea Party formed from a base of anti-Federal Reserve, pro-hard money, Christian conservative, and anti-NWO groups that were followers of Republican candidate Ron Paul, had by then itself been subverted into the later Tea Party, funded by the Koch brothers.

This latter Tea Party, already closer to the statist mainstream than its original base, was the one targeted by Barron’s deceptively named Mainstream Republicans.

MR’s positions in truth more resembled those of mainstream liberal  Democrat groups. Indeed, the two worked together to undermine first, the Tea Party, and then its resurgence in the shape of MAGA [Make America Great Again].

Barron’s profile and history show clear evidence of intentionally subverting the base that became the core of Trump’s following.

So why was he an advisor to the campaign and a coordinator of the single most important public event in the entire Trump presidency?

II SUSPECTED SABOTEUR II:  AMY KREMER

Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer’s Position

We find the same profile and history in the case of Amy Kremer, the other suspected saboteur, who with her daughter is the founder of Women For America First, a 504c foundation. 504c’s  do not need to reveal the sources of their funding.

Kremer’s daughter Kylie Jane is the  director of Women for America First and the permit for the January 6 event was in her name.

Amy Kremer’s History

Kylie Jane’s mother is referred to as a former Tea Party activist, but further research shows that Amy Kremer is actually a liberal Republican or RINO with a history of subverting the Tea Party, just like that of Chris Barron.

Kremer founded Tea Party Patriots, which left-liberal reporter David Wiegel, who followed and misrepresented the Tea Party movement for years, describes as the original grass roots movement.  However, TPP was only created in 2010 and the original Tea Party came out of the Ron Paul libertarians around 2005- 2007. By 2010, that movement had been coopted by mainstream Republicans receiving Koch funding and a rift existed between the two groups’ motivations and goals. Kremer’s TPP was thus, already a mainstream Republican group, something Wiegel’s unreliable narrative fails to state.

On top of that, Kremer then subverted this group by leaving it to form Tea Party Express, a spin- off from another astro-turf group and locked down TPP’s resources during her exit, thereby effectively neutering it. It’s likely that that was her goal all along, which means she too has a history of turning grass roots Republican movements into  liberal Republican or RINO projects.

Exactly like Chris Barron.

HOW THE PLANNED EVENTS OF JAN 6 WERE SUBVERTED

The Jan 6 events were subverted in two distinct ways:

  1. The main speakers, including Trump, were lined up only 2-3 days before the first event at the Ellipse, although PDJT had been promoting the event from mid- December onward. To add to the confusion, at least one data science speaker was cancelled a couple of days before the event and didn’t even go to DC. The slots for the remaining data scientists, Patrick Byrne, and General Flynn, were all cancelled at the meeting itself. No special preparations had been made for them, reportedly, so the decision to cancel was seemingly not last-minute, but taken earlier, while the speakers were notified at the last minute. This suggests that the person who cancelled didn’t want to allow for explanations, substitutions, or any fall-back planning. That is a sign of sabotage not confusion.
  2. The second event at Lot 8 was also sabotaged, because programming and instructions about how to get there from the Ellipse were never given at the first event, which was the original plan.  People observed a younger crowd, smelling of marijuana, and dressed in ways unusual for Trump supporters, coming in to the previous night’s event, as well as the events of Jan 6. Some of this younger crowd seems to have left before Trump’s speech got under way and gone on ahead to the Capitol building, from where they got into the building and engaged in some vandalism. The police appear to have been negligent in protecting the building and were also seen in many videos actively helping people enter and looking the other way, on one hand, while also engaging in unprovoked aggression, including pepper- spraying, tasering, and releasing smoke-bombs.

From StopTheSteal’s statement above and other news items, we get the following:

  1. There was an event at the Ellipse of the President’s Park or South Lawn, permitted to Women For America First, hosted by a variety of groups, including Ali Alexander’s StopTheSteal, Women for Trump, and Women for America First, etc.
  2. The permitted event was to begin at 9 AM and continue to 5 PM
  3. President Trump’s speech was scheduled for 11 AM but it was delayed by and hour and went on to 1 PM??. It seems that while POTUS boosted the event from mid-December onward, he only knew he was scheduled to speak on January 3rd, on the weekend before the event. Could this be why the speech sounded mundane? The Trump team denied that any member of his campaign staff was involved in the organization, operation, or funding of the rally. And if any contractors or former members were, it was without the authorization of the campaign. Thus, Barron as a media liaison of the campaign, would have acted on his own.
  4. Patrick Byrne, Michael Flynn had been told they would speak on January 6 at the invitation of Women For Trump, according to Patrick Byrne. Byrne implies he was told sometime after January 2 and before January 6, which fits with when Trump was told.  On January 5, he was told that one of the 3 or 4 scientists and analysts who had been asked to speak for a few minutes each had had his slot cancelled.  When Byrne and Flynn got to the Ellipse on the 6th, there was no slot for them. They listened to the speeches right up through some of Trump’s. Flynn was later invited on stage by an embarrassed organizer, but he refused. The two left in the beginning or middle of POTUS’ speech.
  5. Eric and Don Jr. gave speeches.
  6. Alex Jones was told that he would be leading a procession to the Capitol and his signal would be the moment when Secret Service police came up to him at the event. But he found that people had gotten there ahead of him.
  7.  The second part of the event was the One Nation Under God event at Lot 8 near the Capitol building, which was organized by and permitted to StopTheSteal. Programming and instructions about walking over there from the Ellipse were supposed to be given to the audience and televised on a large screen at the first event at the Ellipse. Through the deliberate sabotage of  two employees of the Women For America, according to Ali Alexander, this never happened.  Instead, the crowd was left to wander over  mistakenly to the Capitol building itself, where, unknown to them, a trap was ready to be sprung.
  8. At Lot 8,  Senator Paul Gosar [R- Arizona] was supposed to raise the original objection to the election certification and then Senator Ted Cruz [R-Texas] was to propose a Commission to review the merits of the objections. StopTheSteal anticipated that the gathered crowd of OVER A MILLION would add their voices to strengthen the resolve of the wavering Republicans. This and only this was what President Trump intended. Not the march to the physical Capitol building, where, again, unknown to the protestors, additional security had been refused, security had been told to let in people, and infiltrators of many stripes were present, posing both as Trump supporters, as well as opposition, like BLM and Antifa. There were actual BLM supporters present, as well as agent provocateur right- wing groups like Proud Boys posing as BLM, thus adding dense confusion to the events that followed.

 

 

In Which I Try My Hand At Baking…

…or whatever they call deciphering one of Q’s enigmatic drops.

Because a commenter who posts at DeepCapture brought up a drop that rang a bell for her [she follows Q]:

Real Pam Says:
February 6, 2021 at 11:58 am
Is this a clue? I happened to remember something about ‘puppy show’ so searched the website and found this drop

4484 06/20/2020

The stakes are high.
They will fight.
Super bowl > puppy show
Q

https://qagg.news/?q=puppy+show

Anonymous Says:
February 6, 2021 at 3:43 pm
I heard it mentioned by x22 as well. In my opinion, another Q hopium.

Lila Rajiva Says:
February 6, 2021 at 9:30 pm
Know nothing about football, games and TV shows, but pulled this out.
Apparently, the puppy bowl goes on at the same time as the Superbowl which is on Sunday, Feb 7 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa
https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl/
Kansas City Chiefs versus Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Bidens’ dogs Champ and Major, two rescued German Shepherds, will make an appearance at the puppy bowl and will be part of a pitch for wearing masks.
https://wgnradio.com/sports/biden-dogs-to-make-appearance-during-puppy-bowl/

The impeachment trial begins February 9.
Maybe there is some veiled reference to that…I don’t know, I prefer tea leaves, when soothsaying..:<

Real Pam Says: February 7, 2021 at 12:06 am

Wow, that is really interesting about the Biden dogs. Q has often predicted the future but no one knows if they consult a psychic, or the legendary (mythical?) Project Looking Glass or former CIA remote viewers. As with most Q predictions we usually figure it out after it happens. People like mysteries and puzzles. Great research, Lila. I can never find anything online when I search for it.

Anonymous Says: February 7, 2021 at 3:08 am

well, Q is fake news media, so why even bother

Lila Rajiva Says: February 7, 2021 at 4:33 am

Maybe, maybe not. I haven’t researched it enough to say myself, but if so it doesn’t look good for Trump, Flynn or Powell who have all supported Q or Qesque statements. Either Q is benign or all of them are a bit suspect too.

Lila Rajiva Says: February 7, 2021 at 4:57 am

Superbowl > puppy show
The real big time football game > the fun dog world alternative at the same time
Puppies = Biden’s puppies = reference to Biden
Therefore, Trump presidency > Biden sh**show
POTUS > NOPOTUS
Maybe Q is nothing more than a political Rorschach test.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT FOLLOW Q, X, Y, OR Z.

Mike Lindell: Absolute Proof

Trump Can Sue Biden Using A Writ Of Quo Warranto

From U-S-News.com

 

Law professors on the opposite side are actually seriously debating how to bring insurrection charges against Donald Trump so that he and several Congress members, as well as military officers, police men, and government officials who either participated in or endorsed the Capitol protest, can be permanently disbarred from future public service, using Quo Warranto.. Time to pick up that sword before they do.

FBI: Oathkeepers Linked To Jan 6 Arrests, Sedition

AP News, January 20, 2021:

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal authorities presented new details on Tuesday about three self-described members of a paramilitary group who are the first to be charged with plotting the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The FBI said a Virginia man, Thomas Edward Caldwell, appeared to be a leader of the effort. Caldwell and a man and woman from Ohio were all charged with conspiracy and other federal counts, the first of more than 125 people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 assault to be charged with conspiracy.

The chilling details in the case included communications between the defendants and others.

“All members are in the tunnels under the capital,” the FBI quoted a message sent to Caldwell during the Capitol attack. “Seal them in turn on gas.”

Other messages referred to the legislators as “traitors” and called for “night hunting.”

The FBI collected social media messages, photos and video to identify them as part of the Oath Keepers, which believes in a “shadowy conspiracy” to strip Americans of their rights.

Messages included in FBI charging documents had quotes with the three suspects exulting over breaching the Capitol, and Caldwell telling an Oath Keepers leader he was ready to attack Ohio’s capital of Columbus.

“We need to do this at the local level,” he allegedly messaged. “Lets (sic) storm the capitol in Ohio. Tell me when!”

Details of the documents made public offer some insight to planning and coordination behind the extraordinary attack, which apparently took law enforcement by surprise despite various warnings online.

The Oath Keepers group often recruits current and former military, police or other first responders. Records show that Donovan Crowl, 50, served in the U.S. Marines. He was arrested along with Jessica Watkins, 38. Both are Champaign County, Ohio, residents. It wasn’t clear immediately whether either Caldwell or Watkins has military or law enforcement experience.

The FBI said some Oath Keepers members were wearing helmets, protective vests and items with the group’s name and motto: “Not On Our Watch.” The FBI also said that they seemed to “move in an organized and practiced fashion and force their way to the front of the crowd gathered around a door to the U.S. Capitol.”

An affidavit filed against Caldwell states that he was involved in the planning and coordinating of the Capitol breach with Watkins and Crowl. Watkins, who allegedly called herself the commanding officer, and Crowl allegedly belong to the Ohio State Regular Militia, dues-paying members of the Oath Keepers. In one social media post, the FBI said, Watkins pictured Crowl and called him “one of my guys.”

Oath Keepers: Prepare For Comms Down Environment

From Stewart Rhodes at Oathkeepers:

“As always, Oath Keepers stands in defense of the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. What is now being installed is not a constitutional government. It’s an illegitimate regime that has unjustly taken power through massive vote fraud, to install a ChiCom puppet who will do the bidding of a mortal enemy of this nation, as well as the bidding of international elites who are in allegiance and alliance with the CCP as they pursue a common goal of destroying our Republic and enslaving the American people.

Executive Summary:

  1. Prepare for a comms down/blackout environment. Obtain CB and HAM radios, fuel, food, etc
  2. Muster NOW in their county seat. Meet face to face and sort out grid down comms and who will be “Home Guard” and part of a “Family Safe” program to stay back and protect families, while also determining who can project out to protect and assist others.  Do it now before comms go down.
  3. Muster ASAP at state level, but NOT at state Capitol. The newly formed county units must Muster in a friendly “red” county to establish comms and leadership connections for future. Establish protocols in case of lights out/comms down.
  4. Beware of false flags and traps that are now being set. Be careful who you listen to and what events you attend. Expect attempts to lure you onto enemy controlled ground where they have time to set up false flags.
  5. Prepare to walk the same path as the Founding Fathers of condemnation of an illegitimate regime, nullification/mass non-compliance, defiance, mutual defense, and resistance. See Part II for more.

FOR PATRIOTS: 

Patriots, keep your powder dry, your head on a swivel, and your gear ready to roll at moments notice.

BE PREPARED TO MOVE.  TO ROLL.  But, also keep your cool.   It can be a tough balance, but you can do it.  Get right with the Lord, get your mind right, stay cool, but be ready.

Realize that there is a swirling storm of intentional disinformation, rumor-mill crap, and cooked up false-flags running at this time.  Be careful about who you trust for information, and remember, information is not the same thing as “intel.”   Even if someone is sincere and trustworthy (in the sense of not intending to mislead) they can still be passing on false info.

Also be careful about just jumping in on any advertised or organized “patriot” event – be it a protest or an armed march of any kind.  Expect false-flags and enemy orchestrated pied piper events and traps.  Do not rush head-long into such a “Buffalo Jump” as Navy SEAL veteran Matt Bracken calls them.”

Patrick Byrne: Walk Past The Barking Dogs…Or Lose

The former CEO of Overstock.com, more notorious as the publisher of the Deep Capture website, advises the right to be Shaolin Monks:

“The other side will try to provoke us, but we are like Shaolin monks: We “walk on past the barking dogs” (as my martial arts master taught me). As he put it to me so many decades ago:  “When a dog barks at you, you don’t feel a need to bark back at it, or to run over and kick the dog: you walk past the barking dog.” Similarly, in the days ahead as we patriotic Americans gather publicly to make our positions known, when the Goon-Left shows up we do not get in screaming matches with them, we do not let our tempers rise.  We let them bark all they want while we maintain our discipline, poise, and calmness. That is how we show the American people who we are, and who the Goons really are. It is how we win.

Of course, if and only if the dogs actually attack, not just bark but attack,  at that point you have the right of all free men and women to defend yourselves, with whatever minimum of force lets you resolve the situation safely. Just remember, however, the Goons think they win if they can make you go violent in front of the TV cameras. And they are right, they will win….. unless you have shown such a preponderance of control that no reasonable observer could question that they were the aggressors, and you were exercising your right to self-defence.”

How I wish I could agree with Mr. Byrne.

But I cannot.

The truth is most of the conservatives at the Capitol protest did indeed behave like Shaolin monks, as the New York Post reporter’s footage that I posted earlier demonstrates.

A few let loose, but only AFTER the police lobbed smoke bombs, tasered them, and used pepper spray….and after various agents provocateurs instigated brawls and vandalized the building, albeit on a much smaller scale than anything America witnessed through the last two years of inner cities on fire.

The problem is not that the right was tricked into breaking the law.

The problem is they did not break the law….at least, not at first.

It is not trespass if you are invited into a building. The guards let people in and did nothing to discourage what was going on.

Watching from across the world, I believed the guards were sympathetic and eager to let people in.

Point two. Even if they had not been invited in, I would not see anything wrong in people entering the house of the people, something they do routinely during tours.

How much more so during an existential crisis of the republic?

It is the will of the people, tempered by the constitution of the nation, that hallows the halls of government. The Representatives are interlopers if they do not represent the people and the Senators are only hired guns if they do not represent the constitution.

When the people’s will is thwarted for evil ends and the constitution cast aside like a used rag then the halls of government are no longer hallowed but cursed; no more Mount Sinai, but a golden calf consecrated to Libido Dominandi.

That is my first point. Conservatives were a. not really doing anything very bad and b. were quite justified in whatever they did do by the egregious behavior of their targets.

My second argument with Mr. Byrne is that agents provocateurs can act without any assistance from the ordinary citizen.

By this I mean that provocateurs and those they provoke can both be stage managed. Anyone could have a social media account opened in their name and a dozen MAGA rants posted therein. Within the totalitarian spy state in which we live, faking an online persona and then foisting it on some innocent is child’s play. A Shaolin monk, killed by an agent provocateur, can be reborn on the internet as a vile pedophile rapist, on the strength of very little but online rumor. Once that label has taken hold, posthumous rehabilitation is impossible. Once reputation is gone, then who are the good guys and who are the bad? In short, for a man who engaged the media in such hand- to- hand combat and had his own Wikipedia biography targeted, Mr. Byrne seems to have forgotten that it is not who you are, but who people think you are.

To recap my argument, not only does Mr. Byrne, one,  regurgitate the assumptions behind the mainstream narrative about January 6, two,  his advice fails to account for how Shaolin monks avoid being recast as their opposite through the media.

To elaborate. There would have been no Mahatma without Margaret Bourke White and the reverential international press that followed with her. In today’s media ethos, the Mahatma would only be Mohandas, a big- eared, toothless lecher, a pedophile rapist and Luddite, a coward and traitor intent on giving India to Pakistan. Indeed, that is how Gandhi is seen, now that the hagiographers have been succeeded by the debunkers.

My third argument contra Byrne is that violence is only a loser’s game if it is sporadic and individual. Not otherwise.

It goes without saying that John Q Public should not be stocking up on ammo and rifles in the hope of taking out his state representative. In the age of Pegasus, unmanned drones, and AI bots, he is likely to end up in a psychiatric hospital or dead.

However, the idea that wearing buttons and going about our business is going to put an end to the rot is laughable. The boot will not lift from our necks until we join hands and throw it off from us. Concerted public ACTION, not slogans is what will win the day.

Militias could indeed be a part of that action, but not in the way most people think.

I suggest citizen patrols that show up wherever BLM or Antifa threaten people, their homes and businesses. That would be a real start.

But actual physical violence is the smaller part of the problem..

It is the media distortion of reality that is the bigger part.

So another project of resistance should be to target journalists who are especially mendacious about conservatives. We should give them the same relentless public exposure and censure they give others. We could list their failed predictions, their past plagiarisms, their padded resumes, their personal and business fiascos in little biographies that could be inserted below any commentary of theirs wherever it appears and we could do this relentlessly.

Neither of these courses of action is going to win us good press on the left. And that is the final issue I have with Mr. Byrne’s criticism. It is stuck at the level of optics.

Optics is certainly important. Very important. But that doesn’t mean we give up certain options. It means we get smart about our options. It is certainly a bad idea to get caught on camera beating up a leftist goon [and here, I definitely mean a goon, not just some social justice warrior who gets on your nerves.]

The remedy is not to give up beating up on the goons.

It is to make sure the cameras are switched off when you take off your gloves.