THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE TO COINCIDE WITH MY APPEARANCE ON TREVOR LOUDON’S PODCAST, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17. PART I EXPLAINS HOW ATLANTA’S ANTI-POLICE TRAINING CENTER MOVEMENT BECAME GROUND ZERO FOR NATIONAL LEFTIST ACTIVISM, CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON ANTI-SEMITIC, PRO-GAZA THEMES.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SYSTEMATICALLY SEEK OUT LOCAL PROTESTS SUCH AS STOP COP CITY AND TURN THEM INTO NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGNS.
PART II EXPLAINS HOW THE MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS ARE ALL EITHER PERSONALLY VIOLENT OR ARE KNOWINGLY SUBSIDIZING THE TERRORISM OF OTHERS, EVEN AS THEY PRETEND TO BE A PEACE MOVEMENT.
Atlanta City Hall, Picture From American Friends Service Committee Website
PART I
Below (far below) you’ll find the latest missive from the “Stop Cop City” movement, which began in Atlanta but has spread to a national “nonviolent” movement with 70 cities already hosting events. I’ll soon have more about them and their plans for January.
Stop Cop City began as a typical police-abolitionist movement, where white Atlanta college kids could be excited that they were mingling with black people — as with Black Lives Matters — and the National Lawyer’s Guild could heave themselves out of their sagging desk chairs and tentatively hope that someone still remembers who they are. The protests purportedly opposed Atlanta’s new police, firemen and EMT training center being built in the area containing the old police training center, the old Atlanta Prison Farm, and Entrenchment Creek, near the sewer processing plant in southeast Atlanta. Why do they call it Entrenchement Creek? Because it has been, for decades, despite millions wasted in federal grants (I’m looking at you, Atlanta Mayors) an open sewage pit running through my old neighborhood, something only Labradors could love.
So, first, Stop Cop City was an anti-police movement trying to destroy the new training center, which is ironic because these very same activists are always caterwauling that the police need more training. Then, as the typical Additional Leftist Extremists piled on, it expanded to a movement to “Protect the Weelaunee Forest,” which at the time was still an impressive native resource for foraging scrap metal or setting tires on fire if you were a bored, insane, homeless person.
Then, as we say in Atlanta, the big dawgs came out from where they had been hiding: behind those dumb, tree-squatting activists who were pretending to be an “organically grown, autonomous, leaderless movement.” That’s why the movement seemed to go national overnight, and sophisticated eco-terrorists showed up from the West Coast as other terrorists were arriving from other states and foreign countries. I’m talking about the Quakers, American Friends Service Comittee, Extinction Rebellion Global, Food Not Bombs (who also invented Bikes Not Bombs, Food Not Lawns, and Homes Not Jails), and — in addition to far too many others to list — the Party for Socialism and Liberation(PSL), which, typically, immediately began trying to take credit for the whole movement, even though they had slept late again.
PSL is an hones’ to goodness act-ur-all Communist group that split with IWW (International Workers of the World) because they weren’t Marxist/Leninist enough, or were charging too much at their labor union print shops, or something about Trotsky. I do sort of miss the IWW: they always smelled of dirty man-sandal, but their signage was legible. Meanwhile, those busy little commie beavers at PSL Central not only jumped on the Stop Cop City bandwagon but simultaneously joined with ANSWER to support the dictatorships in China and North Korean, again; to cheer on Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Atlanta City Hall, Picture From American Friends Service Committee Website
Confused enough yet? Note the very young woman wearing the red PSL shirt in the corner of the photograph. Do you think she could find Crimea on a map? More relevantly, why is she supporting the annexation of Crimea from inside Atlanta’s City Hall?
Extra points for finding Trump leaving the Fulton County Superior Court in the back of the photo.
Just kidding.
But, not really kidding. These people actually do support Putin. There is a problem with understanding the protests of the radical Left. In a way, they seem so ideologically incoherent, so historically illiterate, so foolish, so hapless, that it is difficult to comprehend the extremity of the threat these groups pose through their international sponsors, as the sponsors recruit your children on the internet and college campuses and especially the teaching schools, and every institution they have “marched through.” Yes, they have brainwashed the majority of our youth along the way. Now they just need events like these to organize them.
By the time the Big Dawgs showed their faces, Atlanta was the protest place to be. Not “organically.” Not “leaderlessly.” Not “autonomously,” but through careful planning by the Quakers and so on, especially Food Not Bombs (who once set an Olympic torch runner on fire). Here is a post that explains Food Not Bombs more thoroughly. Here is another.
Here is Food Not Bombs Setting an Olympic Torch Runner on Fire
Soon enough, yet another a bunch of crazy eco-terrorists showed up, and some in the local Black Lives Matters were, like, OK, we’re not sleeping forty feet in the air strapped to a tree limb with a bunch of skanky white hippies from Portland. In a feat never accomplished since 1950’s white flight, the Stop Cop City protesters had succeeded in turning a southeast Atlanta neighborhood almost entirely white.
Nevertheless, united in their hatred of anything police, all the different groups formed into one, then two, then three coalitions: Stop Cop City, Block Cop City, and Stop Cop City Solidarity. They found common ground in disrupting Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia Legislature, rioting downtown, throwing molotov cocktails at police cars, blowing up construction equipment, and, as always, maurading through Atlanta’s famous Underground Atlanta, which is rebuilt every few years as a “tourist attraction” where, in addition to dodging genuine Atlanta bullets, you can buy stale saltwater taffy pre-chewed by homeless people while searching for the remains of your uncle who disappeared there in 1975 after “that” Allman Brothers concert.
As these “protests” grew more violent, Fox 5 Atlanta provided a timeline of the attacks, molotov cocktails, bricks thrown at police, civilians, building contractors, and explosions at the Police Training Center itself. “Activists” even firebombed city streets — let’s tell the truth — trying to kill police officers — at the corner of Ellis and Peachtree, one of the most densely populated tourist and convention hotel districts in the city.
Activists threw molotov cocktails at police cars, also threatening local tourists and residents
But something different happened in Atlanta than in Portland or Seattle or poor Minneapolis. Was it perfect? No. I still wish they would restrain or arrest every protester who leaves the official protest center for which they’ve obtained a legal permit. Heck, way, way back before I knew about such things, I accidently wandered into a “permitted” rally carrying an opposition sign, and the cops pulled me out of there and showed me where the counterprotesters had been given a permit to protest. That’s America. That’s nonviolent free speech. Since then, I’ve been proud to sponsor Iranian dissident women at the opening of the Olympic games, protesting for women’s lives in Iran, and many other events. If someone doesn’t want to hear me, they can leave the protest site. We need more of that, especially on our college campuses.
What in happened Atlanta was profound. It was leadership, mostly by Councilpeople and Police, across races, across parties. There was exactly one firebombing riot downtown, and then there were arrests and terrorism charges against the actual terrorists. The police and state troopers and Forest Service took down the ludicrous “forest campers” from the trees where they had strung their tents and cooked their skanky rice and beans. Some homeless “indigenous residents” of the site even expressed relief.
Atlanta did not acquiesce. They did not allow “occupation.” They enforced the law. And in doing so, they sent a message, one that may cause more temporary disruption before these anarchists finally go away, but it will be quick. Compared with cities such as Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis, the Atlanta Police Department let the out-of-state terrorists know that they weren’t fooling around. They let them know that international activists/slash trust fund graduate students from Europe couldn’t treat our neighborhood like a dialectical exercise in Adbusters. Our Attorney General, Chris Carr, is indicting the terrorists who threw Molotov cocktails at police — to kill them — and who blew up police cars, threatening scores of hotel guests and other tourists.
We’re not Portland. We’re not Seattle. We are Atlanta. Someone let Noam Chomsky know.
And our City Council held firm. Kudo to them. It wasn’t easy, I know. Friendships were lost. Uninformed people turned on some fine elected officials who understood, despite a lot of pushback, how badly our city’s first responders — not just police, but firemen, and especially EMTs, need a close location to train and study and learn the best techniques in modern policing, firefighting, and medical care. Not “militarization,” the radicals’ infantile whine, but training that better addresses fires, and mentally ill people, and auto accidents (we’re Atlanta, for goodness sake: we ARE a freeway), and brings everyone — police, firemen, EMTs, civilians — and criminals — home alive. Let’s thank them.
Part II
It’s All Violent Protest
The important point I want to make here is that these national/multinational non-profits and NGOs have been using the naive protesters to do their dirty work: shoot at police and spend weekends gathered at the Quaker Friends Meeting House chanting mindlessly in unison, led by very sophisticated people who have shamelessly been using the same utterly irritating verbiage and abusive Criticism/Self-Criticism techniques that Mao himself inaugurated. To understand more of this in detail, read my last few posts.
Lets start with the Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Do you wonder why the building of the Atlanta Police, Firemen, and EMT training facility suddently became associated with the issue of Gaza, overnight, with an intensity that only well-funded, international, non-profit organizations can organize?
Thank a Quaker.
No, Not Him
Rather, thank the horrific devolution of a particular Quaker sect, with its activist arm, the American Friends Service Committee. They’ve been up to this sort of insidious behavior for decades, and I’m not referring to the Vietnam War (when I think people generally understood that most Quakers were non-violent and abiding by consistent religious principles). They hide behind platitudes and have such an inbred hatred of whites (though almost all of them are whites), that they have become more of a cult than a church. The faith that was founded on the humanity of all people now practices (in some sects) a pathetic simulacrum of a Seventies Manhattan Cocktail Party or Maoist re-education camp, encouraging hatred for police and for all white people, even themselves.
No wonder membership’s down.
Incidentally, this is going to be quite a tightrope act in Atlanta, where most of the Police Department is black.
Here is an excerpted version of the Atlanta Quaker Equality Mission Statement, focusing on the current era.
In 2000, AFM business meeting recorded its commitment to becoming a safe and welcoming spiritual home for all. It asked all committees and groups in the Meeting to regularly prayerfully reflect on how their activities contribute to being more welcoming and to make any necessary changes. Since then, the Committee on Undoing Racism in Atlanta Friends Meeting and the Quakers for Racial Equality group have been formed. We recognize the pervasive effects of racism and white privilege on our lives and the need for whites to take an active role in ending racism.
In more recent years, Atlanta Friends Meeting has also become more sensitive to the concerns of ending discrimination and defending the civil rights of people identifying with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer communities, and has established a support group to help address LGBTQ issues … QRE also offers a weekly “Virtual Literature Table” on race and racism and staffs the monthly “Listening Ear for Concerns about Racism.” QRE also works with Social Concerns on giving scholarships for anti-racist education and contributing to local racial justice groups ….
The Committee on Undoing Racism in Atlanta Friends Meeting (CURAFM) meets monthly on 1st Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. ET. Links for the online meetings appear in the AFM weekly announcement sheets. CURAFM helps Atlanta Friends Meeting become a more equitable anti-racist multicultural spiritual home for all. CURAFM, with the help of the Ad Hoc Anti-Racist Policies group, developed the Interpersonal Racist Incident Policy. CURAFM offers “Let’s Talk about Race” on the 4th Wednesday of the month and provides educational opportunities on individual and institutional racism for the Meeting through forums …
Fellowship of Friends of African Descent is a national Quaker group to nurture and respond to concerns of Friends of African Descent within the Religious Society of Friends. Contact via fofad.org Website or Facebook Page
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer Concerns of Atlanta (FLGBTQC of ATL) is a support organization within Atlanta Friends Meeting for the queer community and our allies. We are deeply appreciative of the support that we have continued to find in this Meeting. Another visible sign of this support is the small pink triangles or rainbows (both symbols of LGBTQ identity) and the small blue, pink and white stickers (the trans flag and a symbol of trans identity) that many members and attenders have chosen to wear on their nametags each Sunday.— For more information, please see Equality Testimony
By all means, go to the website and follow the links to the Equality Testimonies and Interpersonal Racist Incident Policies. It’s a good thing these people spend so much time policing each other, because it leaves them less time to police us. For now.
But everyone really isn’t welcome at the Quaker Meeting House. Can you imagine being a young police officer, traumatized by witnessing a bloody car crash and seeking solace, feeling comfortable in a building where police are depicted as pigs on organizing posters, even in their sacred meeting space?
Other people aren’t really welcome either. In fact, the Quaker Meeting House has joined with the American Friends Service Committee, Block Cop City, Stop Cop City, Stop Cop City Solidarity, Food Not Bombs, and who knows how many others to doxx or direct to websites to doxx not only the contractors building the Public Safety Training Center, but also the painting crews, the equipment companies, the material suppliers — nationwide — the plumbers, the forest tradesmen, the architects — and in some cases, protesters have showed up at their homes, terrorizing their spouses and children. This is why I’m not linking to these groups. Doing so would only spread the doxxing.
This is not non-violent protesting. For a similar case, see the absolutely dreadful case of an innocent, older Jewish woman who accidentally drove into a BLM crowd that didn’t have a permit to block her way, abandoned her car and tried to flee, was restrained, and is now serving time for hate crime for fighting back, as her attacker received the key to the city. Didn’t read about it in the paper? What a surprise. If she has anyone brave enough to open a legal defense fund for her (the last one was taken down), that would be a fitting gesture.
Nothing Stop Cop City Says on Their Website is True
As I wrote in my most recent posts, I attended the last Stop Cop City training weekend at the Atlanta Quaker Center, incognito, and then insinuated myself in their illegal march, sometimes staying with the journalists, sometimes marvelling at how an anti-police training center basically improving a toxic dump could become ground zero for not only pro-Gaza activism but also transgender activism. Those Maoists! What can’t they do?
And so I signed up for their stupid newsletter, which will be a passing wind in the wind (pardon me) in no time at all. Every single word of it is untrue. As Mary McCarthy famously said about Lillian Hellman: “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.'”
They sure don’t make semi-repentant commmies like they used to.
Unfortunately, I’d hoped to, but cannot link to, thus refute, the most recent newsletter. I’ll get someone with the technical skills to work it out later. I’m a luddite. Understand this: these people were snickering in the Sacred Quaker space where you’re supposed to commune with God, and every time a leader told them that they would be holding a “non-violent protest,” there was more laughter. They attacked the police with reinforced umbrellas they had at the Quaker Center.
There’s a voice and written transcript in the post above, but it doesn’t capture the college student wailing to me as the protest turned dark: “but it was supposed to be a peaceful protest.”
As the Black Bloc assaulted the police in a residential neighborhood. In my next post, I will provide the video proof and hopefully the documents Stop Cop City sent to me.
Good on Atlanta. And check out Trevor Loudon’s podcast. And if you feel like it, donations are greatly appreciated. I do this all on my own dime.