Virtually every major corporation has contributed to Black Lives Matter, Antifa or other "social justice" organization. Most corporations that have refused to contribute have been quickly brought to heal with much groveling. There are very few holdouts. Not all corporate donors are convinced progressives. Contributions are a great way to advertise a corporation's virtue and prevent vandalism or boycotts. Celebrities lead the pack of virtue signalers. Chrissy Teigen has donated $200K to "bail out protestors." George Clooney donated $500K to the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to helping the legal cases of unjustly-charged people. This has resulted in transfer of an enormous amount of money. Bank of America has pledged $1 billion to address racial and economic inequality. YouTube will donate $1 million toward social justice initiatives while the CEO of Uber said his company would be donating $1 million to two criminal justice reform groups. Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would donate $10 million toward groups fighting racial inequality. Disney announced it is donating $5 million to organizations that "advance social justice" It is unlikely that vast amount of this money will be spent on defending "peaceful" protestors. The New York Times has reported the Minnesota Freedom Fund has "dispersed approximately $200,000 of the more than $30 million raised."
Dozens of "nonprofits" have lined up to provide assistance to those arrested and receive financial assistance. They all have innocuous sounding names. Progressives have experience choosing harmless sounding names from the days of the Communist front organizations. Many of them have radical agendas that Deep State Media (DSM) have attempted to conceal. Antifa is described by Wikipedia as an activists group "engaged in protest tactics . . . sometimes involving property damage, physical violence and harassment, against fascists, racists and those on the far-right." Perhaps store owners, many of them Black are "far right." Black Lives Matter (BLM) is described as "an organized movement dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience in protest to alleged incidents of police brutality." Violence in these riots is downplayed. Mastercard, has saluted BLM. "We hear the call that Black Lives Matter, and we wholeheartedly agree," the company said in a June 4 statement. Perhaps they did not hear the calls, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon!” and “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!”
With fires raging behind them the DSM reporters announce that the "protests" are mostly peaceful. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan stated that in the city, there are four blocks that are “more like a block party atmosphere” and “We could have the summer of love.” The radical nature of these extremist groups is becoming increasingly obvious to the public. The DSM and these corporations will claim they were misled and did not really want to fund the destruction of the United States. However, the CEOs and media executives did not fall off the banana boat yesterday. They are perfectly aware of the violent policies of these radical groups. A pathetic attempt has been made to attribute the violence to Russians and White supremacists. Susan Rice suggested the Russians were be behind the violence while Gov. Tim Walz observed that it was White supremacists. His belief was bolstered by a new FBI intelligence bulletin. This bulletin was sent to local law enforcement by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center. It claims White supremacists and racist domestic terrorists pose the greatest threat of violence in the United States. The document only mentions the existence of Antifa once in a footnote.
Are these organizations "dedicated to non-violent civil disobedience"? Hawk Newsome, Chairman of BLM's Greater New York chapter believes his group can lead the 'war on police'. He aims to develop a highly-trained 'military' arm to challenge police brutality. We have black Special Forces officers advising us, and we will teach and train people in our communities." Perhaps this is related to President Obama's call for "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors claims, “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.”
In many cases these radical groups are being assisted by local government officials. Few mayors are as incompetent as Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake who announced during the 2015 "protests", “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” When a 911 operator in Columbus, Ohio said “We were told by our mayor to stand down, so the mayor has given them full range of the street," the police and the mayors office were quick to deny it. A dispatcher in Fredricksberg, VA told a terrified 911 caller, "We can’t do anything, ma’am. The city told us that this is a sanctioned event." It is difficult to understand how jumping on a woman's car and screaming obscenities at a little girl furthers social justice. Seattle is being sued for assisting the rioters. The city provided barriers, portable toilets and medical equipment. Aid to the rioters was given even before the death of George Floyd. New York City released over 2,650 criminals from prison to protect them from the pandemic. Los Angeles County released about 5,000 criminals. Massachusetts freed 1,000 criminals and Illinois freed around 4,000. Illinois released 146 sex offenders including 3 considered “sexually dangerous persons.” Dallas released 1,000 criminals. Once the riots started most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD were immediately released. Nearly all rioters have been freed from jail in Washington, D.C. and most have had felony riot charges dropped against them. Why should police risk their lives and careers to arrest people who will be immediately released. This will become much more interesting.
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