I’m not real happy with the state of the nation right now. There are some things that are great and some that are not, which is normal, but people seem to be losing their freaking minds and I’m very much concerned things are going to get very bad, very soon.
Cam wrote about how some Democrats want blood and violence earlier this week. I wrote about an attack on an ICE detention facility. Cam touched on another attack, this time at a Border Patrol facility.
It’s been a busy week.
There was another incident this week that didn’t quite make the same headlines as those other, but only by pure, dumb luck.
In Kentucky, the Proud Boys and Antifa came face-to-face, as they do quite often. Unsurprisingly, the confrontation became physical, and then things almost got really bad.
The armed confrontation took place on July 5 after antifascist protesters assembled in a parking lot at Thompson Berry Park in Owensboro, Kentucky, and walked towards a double chain-link fence separating the park from the backyard of a private residence where the Proud Boys were gathering.
The display of firearms took place after the Proud Boys jumped the fences and ran at the antifascist protesters. During the fracas, a woman was knocked to the ground, and the Proud Boys seized at least one of the leftists’ banners before forcing them to retreat.
The protest against the Proud Boys was organized by the Progressive Labor Party of Kentucky, a revolutionary communist group, which issued a call to “oppose the Proud Boys” in defense of “the interconnected queer community” in the midst of an ongoing effort to “remove books from the local public library.” The protest drew a contingent of antifascists from Middle Tennessee, along with Owensboro locals.
A video posted by the Bluesky account of the Nashville-based Antifascist 615 group shows a woman leading a small child inside the private residence after several Proud Boys jumped the fence to confront the leftist protesters. Another video shows a woman with the Proud Boys angrily confronting an antifascist live-streamer about one of the leftists “pointing a f—ing gun when there are kids in the way.”
The unidentified live-streamer can be heard commenting on the video, which has since been taken down but has been reviewed by Raw Story: “Actually, I am pretty p—ed off about that. I didn’t know he had a f—ing gun.” He added, “Why the f— did he pull it in the direction that children are at — the f—ing idiot.”
It seems the Proud Boys also pulled guns, though the report linked above said it’s unclear who drew first.
Regardless, this could have gone sideways very, very quickly, and been something that no one should want to see on American soil.
Now, my inclination is to blame Antifa right off the bat, but that’s because I really don’t like them. My take on the Proud Boys is that the mainstream media doesn’t like them, and therefore, I distrust everything they say about the group, but that doesn’t mean I think they’re choir boys, either. It could go either way.
And I honestly don’t care who drew first. The fact that anyone drew anything, that there was any kind of violent confrontation, is the problem in and of itself.
We don’t need that.
Back in April, I asked if political violence was starting to escalate. We’d seen a lot of stuff that started with burning Teslas has escalated into a lot more stuff that no one should be comfortable with.
And how do we tone it down? I honestly don’t know what one could do short of capitulation, which isn’t an option.
So all we can do is recognize the world is getting crazy, that “protests” are far too likely to become violent at far too little provocation, and if you’re not armed at all times, you might well find yourself in the middle of something you don’t want to be in the middle of and have no way to protect you and yours.
That’s not something anyone should take a chance on, in my honest opinion.
Read the full article here
