LA Story

Watching the events of LA over the past few days, I realized that we are in the middle of a story. Not a news story as such, but a planned narrative being produced by the Left. Each chapter providing the material to move the plot to the next.

First is the prologue. The return of Trump despite the best attempts by the Left to bury him. The running eight year narrative that he is the Orange Hitler that will destroy democracy. That his policy of reversing the previous four years of open borders by mass deportations is the equivalent of crimes against humanity.

Second are the riots that started last week. Nothing like that just “happens.” Well, maybe not never, but very rarely. The first thing to look for when these things happen is the pros behind it all, the hard men. Large events take organization and expertise, which means money. During the campus post-10/7 protests, especially at Columbia, numerous observers pointed out that a number of participants didn’t look like your normal undergraduates. That was your professional cadre.

Then there are the preprinted signs. I doubt, from my own experience, that they were printed on short notice and out of the protesters’ pockets. They knew ICE was coming, if not that day then sometime in the future, and they prepared an ambush.

Data Republican has been analyzing the groups involved and outlining their various funding lines. She didn’t base her analysis on some special inside knowledge, but instead simply looked at the names on the protest signs and used open-source materials.

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Helter-Skelter

I was a teenager when the Manson murders went down, in the autumn of 1969 of course, the cruel and inexplicable murder of a movie star and several of her friends made all the headlines, and had lots of law-abiding citizens looking over their shoulders and being very careful about locking the doors and windows of their homes at night. It wasn’t until some time later that the associated murders of an elderly retired couple also hit the headlines of the LA Times, and other national newspapers. A blood-drenched, hippy cult with a weirdly charismatic leader had committed those murders in order so they claimed to trigger a devastating racial war, which they termed ‘helter-skelter’ from a Beatles song moderately popular at the time.

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