Here is a pamphlet that is being distributed by the insurgents (pdf warning, but it’s hosted here) at ANTIFA and BLM. It’s called “Why we break windows.” Here is an excerpt:
property destruction is an effective tactic. From the Boston Tea Party to the demonstrations against the 1999 World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, property destruction has been an essential part of many struggles. It can pressure or punish opponents by inflicting an economic cost.
You know what else punishes opponents who would break my shit? Bullets. That doesn’t mean that shooting people is a valid form of discussion or protest. Then the rationalize it thusly:
Shop windows represent segregation. They are invisible barriers. Like so much in this society, they simultaneously offer a view of “the good life” and block access to it. In a polarizing economy, shop windows taunt the poor with commodities they cannot afford, status and security they will accumulate so much wealth at everyone else’s expense. In this situation, never attain. For millions upon millions, the healthy food, medicines, and other goods they need are the breadth of an entire social class away from them, a gulf they will not cross in a lifetime of hard work—a gulf represented by half an inch of plate glass.
Property rights are anathema to commies. They don’t want to work for it, but they want it. So they take it. At the end of the day, that is socialism and communism is- the theft of goods and services, wrapped up in a pretty bow. That’s why so many who espouse these theories imagine themselves as sitting around writing shitty poetry while other, less educated and intelligent folks, slave away in the gulags.
Still, I am not here to psychoanalyze their behavior. The point of this post is twofold:
- To show that there is no discussion, reasoning, or changing the minds of those who are trying to overthrow our very way of life, and
- To point out that there is only one way out of this, albeit with two possible outcomes
This is the reasoning that they give for breaking windows:
It is not a coincidence that shop windows have been targeted in protests against police violence. Businesses, be they multinational or local, are the tax base that pays for police, and without police they would not be able to addressing protests directly to the police is oblique, for the police answer to business owners and politicians, not to public opinion. It is much more direct to target their bosses, the capitalists themselves. Cost them enough money in smashed windows, and maybe they’ll think twice about what kind of policing they call for.
They are wrong. The police aren’t there to keep the poor people poor. No, the police are there to ensure that the accused receive a free trial. If the police cease protecting society from those who would destroy their property, those who wish to protect their property will simply begin killing those who would destroy and steal their property. The posse rides out in search of the horse thief, then the posse returns with the horse but not the thief.
as long as such inequalities persist, people are bound to lash out against them via property destruction as well as other tactics. Anyone who truly desires to see an end to property destruction should hasten to bring about the end of property itself. Then, at last, the only reason to break windows would be thrill seeking.
There is no reasoning with this attitude. They are saying, “Give me your property, or I will destroy it.” There can be no negotiation here- the choices are surrender; or eliminate.
I seriously thought about putting some funny memes here, but I want people to know just how deadly serious I am about this, so no snide jokes with quotes from movies, just a solemn vow- when it kicks off, I may not survive, but it is my sincere hope that I take dozens of those commie bastards with me, and I won’t fight fair.
If you read their own materials, some listed below, but pay particular attention to the Violence of Legitimacy, they declare violence as being defined as “harm or threat that violates consent.” I think that’s a valid definition. Of course, they go on to justify their own violence as being self defense by saying this:
isn’t it violent to live on colonized territory, destroying ecosystems through our daily consumption and benefitting from economic relations that are forced on others at gunpoint?
To them, owning property is wrong because they don’t own it. So they destroy or take what they want. If you then defend your property from their theft or vandalism, you are committing violence that they can then defend themselves from. I tried to read the entire document, but it went on for nearly 4,000 words, all of it attempting to justify their violent actions.
Here it is- these guys are nothing more than violent thieves who would rather steal or destroy our property than work for property of their own. The fact that they are openly calling for violence is enough to convince me that there is no reasoning with them. The only course of action left is civil war. That’s where we are, and that is where we are headed.
Everything else is just a preamble.
More Intelligence Material
Why All the Smashy-Smashy? A Beginner’s Guide to Targeted Property Destruction.
