Atlanta Quaker Friends Meeting House
Site of the Planning for Violent Protesters to Attack Police
The Quakers and the Mennonites need to answer for their conduct, not just to the public and the police, but to their own members who actually believe in their creed of nonviolence, and — in the case at least of the Quakers — opposing anti-Semitism, creeds which were desecrated by their own leadership who allowed this to happen in their worship centers, and in their name.
The Quaker Atlanta Friends Meeting House on Howard Street in Decatur hosted the core violent movement leaders of Stop Cop City and Block Cop City throughout the weekend of the 11th. These leaders, who arrived from several different states (based on their license tags), set up at the Friends Meeting House as their training site as they instructed local, younger adults in the tactics and language of Black Bloc, ANTIFA-style violent protest, specifically how to provide cover for the ANTIFA-like (or just plain ANTIFA) violent core members as they crept through the crowd last Monday, invaded a residential neighborhood, blocked a police car, assaulted police officers –and had previously led sporadic anti-semitic and genocidal chants in the Meeting House’s main worship space.
I was in the Meeting House, and while I could not insert myself in the leadership meetings, I have audio from the general meetings, where a crowd of 300-350 people snickered whenever one of the leaders laughingly “reminded” attendees that the protest would be non-violent.
But it was never meant to be non-violent, and everyone in that room knew it. Including the purportedly non-violent Quaker leaders lending them material support and cover for their planned, violent attack on November 12. I have reached out to Atlanta Friends Meeting House, and I will report verbatim any conversation I have with them. If they reply, which I doubt.
Here is an excerpt from the Friends/Quaker creed:
“Violence stands as the ultimate denial of love; peace remains its cherished affirmation.”
Here is another:
“This compelling faith led [us] to regard all people as equal before God … [we] refused to swear oaths, maintaining that truth should be spoken at all times.”
Not my experience in their house.
As to not swearing oaths, quite ironically, the main indoctrination tactic of these Occupy-like activists is to force everyone in the room to mindlessly chant the same silly or hateful slogans over and over, louder and louder, until they are shouting in unison like Maoists. I will link to the audio in my next post. Non-participation is singled out as a sign of disloyalty. What does it mean that Quakers, whose very faith system is based on silent, solitary communion with God, not man, would allow this authoritarian practice to be enforced in their place of worship? This may seem like a small point, but it is not. For the Quakers to host radicals like these, they are rebelling against centuries of their deepest religious beliefs.
Does this Quaker congregation really believe, as one told me on the phone, that they did not know what was happening in their place of peace and worship when they handed it over to people who have, to date, shot a police officer, injured many others, ambushed police with explosive devices, and firebombed police vehicles on a narrow street between hotels full of civilians, where a hotel fire from an exploding car gas tank could be catastrophic? Are police not welcome to the Quakers, not human? If pricked, do they not bleed? Or, in the original Shakespeare, per Shylock:
He hath disgraced me … scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
The Quaker Meeting house was filled not only with cop-haters, but with Jew-haters, and the Quakers have no way to deny that. How could they? Their meeting-room was filled with people handing out anti-Semitic literature and bursting out, “from the river to the sea” (ie. another holocaust of Jews). When I was gathering posters from a table, one girl became hysterical when she merely saw the mention of Israeli soldiers. “Just another reason to hate them,” she huffed. The protesters are especially enraged that the Atlanta police and Israeli police run an exchange program (I believe through Georgia State University) to share information in responding to terrorist threats.
Fliers handed out at the Quaker Meeting Center in Decatur, GA
The “Block Cop City”activists were also making the usual, sloppy crude paper-mache puppets that looked something like butterflies, butterflies featuring the blood-soaked words, “from the river to the sea,” painted on their wing-looking things.
I would personally donate paper-mache instruction classes for these sloppy, lice-ridden hippies, just so we don’t have to squint so hard through the wheat-paste to read their slogans — this one says “stop cop city” and “from the river to the sea.”
But in all seriousness, anti-Semitism was as thick on the ground in the Quaker Meeting House as the two-day-old pots of crusty rice and beans. Note that “Bring The War Home” was the slogan of the Weather Underground, the leaders of which practically lived with Michelle and Barack Obama for eight years without any other journalist or pundit or elected official noticing, except the vigilant and psychologically insightful historian David Garrow, who documented the relationship in his evaluation of the Obama years, Rising Star: the Making of Barack Obama.
These posters look an awful lot like the ones the Weather Underground used when they rioted at the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. So do some of the reference numbers partially hidden on the sides. Just saying.
A few young men wearing yarmukles were present at the protest, eagerly chanting for Israel’s destruction. They wouldn’t talk to me. Understandable, I suppose. I wish I had made it to the Mennonite’s contribution to this Jew-hating event: on the Friday before the training, the Mennonites apparently held a “Block Cop City Shabbat Potluck” at their “neighborhood farm” on Bouldercrest Road. How neighborly of them. I can’t make heads or tails of it — if anyone has information about what transpired there, please let me know.
Why are the protesters conflating the situation in the Middle East with the building of a police, fire, and EMT training center is Atlanta? Because everything is a political opportunity for outrage in hard-left movements. It’s not really about the much-needed training center, which will, ironically, meet many of the demands the left itself made for better police training. It’s not about “preserving a sacred forest” which was actually a dump with open sewage lines running through it (I know — I lived there for decades, and boy, did I dread heavy rains). It’s not about environmentalism: the training center is cleaning and building acres of new parkland for residents out of what was a place for dumping tires trading drugs, and living rough. It’s about permanent revolution, permanent destruction, and creating new generations of radical activists out of confused and malleable youths.
Next Up: “Manuel Tortiguita” is not a martyr: he was a terrorist with a cute cowlick who shot an innocent cop in the stomach. He was given plenty of time to peacefully surrender. He was killed in a firefight of his own making. Why was his mother, and possibly his father (I don’t know where he’s from yet) given a “tourist visa” to tour 70 cities to lie about her son’s death and incite riots against police? I taped their speeches, and they sound like seasoned radicals.
