Tim Pool on the evidence that the riots have been planned

Individual humans can be smart. Collective humans, by contrast, are almost always stupid. People in groups are easy to manipulate.

A day or so ago, friend Bill Keezer sent out this email (lightly edited):

All,

For several years, I have been predicting a coming civil war. I thought it would be over either one or both of the following issues: gun control and immigration. I obviously was wrong. As we see from the widespread violence and its organization, we are now in an active civil war, and it is neither over the issues I expected nor taking the form I expected.

I anticipated eventual federal versus local engagements over immigration and sanctuary cities, or citizen uprisings over gun-control attempts. The latter may happen if confiscation is seriously attempted, but Connecticut and New York show that gun-control law, which would cause confiscation, is not being enforced. It has become virtue-signaling. The Bundy ranch incident in Nevada was the revelation that government enforcement will not stand up to determined citizens. Virginia is walking a thin line in this regard. So far, their gun control does not lead to confiscation—simply to difficulty in obtaining CCW [carrying a concealed weapon], ammunition, or additional firearms. It is still at a stage where court battles are being waged.

Immigration was creating turbulence, but it has become less urgent as the number of illegal aliens entering the US has decreased due to the President’s stand against illegal entry, the building of the border wall, and the effects of the Wuhan flu. I had anticipated popular action and started to see it when buses of forcibly relocated aliens were being stopped at city limits. That issue has died down to the extent it doesn’t appear even in the conservative news sources or among conservative commentators.

I had started tracking resistance to government rule during the virus lockdown, and I listed it in my own archives and in items sent to others as a slow-motion civil war. Events have also overtaken those insights.

The rioting actually is really more an invasion by leftist activists than a civil uprising. Evidence keeps appearing that the riots are organized and supported by non-local groups. In fact, the current crop of riots is unusual in that, in the past, there would be only one local riot at a time. What does characterize all the riots are imported agitators, provision made to have missiles (bricks) available to the rioters, the rapid switch from protest to riot, the destruction of businesses that have no relation to the issue (and in fact are in the communities the rioters live in), and the passiveness of the government—local and state—in responding to them.

The President had it right when he said that, where there is looting, there will (should) be shooting. I have long thought that riots should be surrounded by heavily armed forces, told to cease and desist in the next five minutes, with rioters being drop to the ground, and with law enforcement shooting anyone who remains standing. Rapid response like that would break the back of the riot quickly. Do not talk to me about the civil rights of the rioters. They are criminals by their actions. They have declared there are no civil rights—only force. Let them take the consequences of their actions. Force must be met with greater force.

This civil war puts me on the side of the government, which is a surprise. I expected to be against the government on gun control, which was my favored issue. It is important to realize that the goal of the rioting is the destruction of our society by the agitators using blacks as useful idiots. This has been a long time coming, with the destruction of the family by welfare, the dumbing-down of children by the education system, and the rise of corrupt administrations. Let us hope we are not too late in combating it.

If the phrase "blacks as useful idiots" strikes you as offensive, please understand the background. Bill isn't trying to be racially insensitive; if anything, he's sympathetic to the plight of black Americans who are being used by various parties merely as a means to a nefarious end. By using the old, infamous phrase "useful idiots," which supposedly harks back to Vladimir Lenin (who may or may not have actually coined the term), Bill is talking about how the black community (among other communities) gets manipulated by people like Antifa, the Pelosi-Schumer-Schiff Democrats, or the larger left. Seeing anyone being used as a useful idiot should be cause for anger and pity, not for racist scorn or mirth. Immanuel Kant (who gets mentioned on this blog often enough that I think I really ought to study the man and his thinking more deeply) gave us the idea that people should treat other people as ends in themselves, never as a means to an end. I wholeheartedly agree. And wouldn't it be nice to see people treating each other that way?