Hot Tip: If You Throw Molotovs, The Police Will Probably Shoot You
JAZZ SHAW writes
Apparently, this isn’t the type of story the media likes to talk about very much. A guy showed up at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington yesterday, armed with a rifle and a duffle bag full of Molotov cocktails and other improvised “incendiary devices.” Needless to say, he wasn’t there to help with their lawn care. After the literal fireworks began, police showed up on the scene. How the encounter precisely played out isn’t clear yet, but the Molotov man would up at room temperature. Fortunately, none of the responding officers were injured.
The officers have been placed on administrative leave with pay while the incident is investigated, as is standard practice in lethal force encounters.
This should really go without saying, but before anyone starts unloading on the cops we should deal with a dose of reality. I don’t care if you are a nutjob with a right-wing political agenda, a nutjob with a left-wing ax to grind, or just a random nutjob with some screws loose. If you show up at a government building with a rifle and incendiary devices and begin torching the place, the cops are going to be there quickly. And if you don’t comply with their instructions, they will shoot you. This guy had burned up at least one car, set fire to a couple of buildings and was attempting to detonate a large propane tank. What did he expect was going to happen?
If you didn’t hear about this, it probably shouldn’t be too surprising. Yes, there are a couple of headlines in the major newspapers and I did see a few segments on CNN covering it. But at least from the pieces I watched, they were almost entirely who, what, where, when stories, absent any great degree of analysis and discussion. I wonder why that is?
Every time some whacko with a MAGA hat so much as takes a swing at someone, we’re treated to hours of endless analysis about how Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric is inspiring people to do harm. But now, after elected Democratic officials, including some presidential candidates, have spent weeks and months vilifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement, accusing them of running concentration camps and demanding that they be shunned by polite society, I take it we’re forbidden from wondering if all of that rhetoric had anything to do with this jackwagon trying to blow up an ICE detention center.
Seriously, folks. Aside from a couple of new polls dropping, a brief blackout in New York City, and some flooding down south, there wasn’t all that much news breaking this morning. And yet I don’t think CNN has spent more than ten minutes total on this attack since I turned it on at six o’clock this morning. Where’s all the deep, penetrating analysis?
If this happened here we wouldn’t hear much about it either. Our police are far too busy taking guns off law abiding citizens. They wouldn’t shoot the bastard. Instead they would give him a cuddle, a cuppa tea and tell us his feelz were injured.
This guy was an anarchist, antifa, who wrote a letter, (one can read if using zoom) that some call a “manifesto” predicting his ‘suicide by police’.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/willem-van-spronsen-emma-durutti/
Most certainly not a “white supremacist” but a “liberationist” for diversity and for trans. A quiet peaceful man they say. 🙂 but ok to throw molotovs near some propane tanks, and have a gun handy.
“When I was a boy, in post-war Holland, later France, my head was filled with stories of the rise of fascism in the ’30s. I promised myself that I would not be one of those who stands by as neighbors are torn from their homes and imprisoned for somehow being perceived as lesser.”
What a pity Spronsen isn’t around to tell us exactly who is being ripped from their homes.
Maybe he means the children crossing the US border with adult males they are not related to.
He also makes a total nonsense of SLG’s gun confiscations making our world nicer:
“The semi-automatic weapon I used was a cheap, home-built unregistered “ghost” AR-15, it had six magazines. I strongly encourage comrades and incoming comrades to arm themselves. We are now responsible for defending people from the predatory state. Ignore the law in arming yourself if you have the luxury, I did.”
The average of the world’s IQ just leapt skyward.