Another day, another round of violent leftist protests in America. Except that even the legacy media can’t pretend that this is “mostly peaceful” stuff. Not when dozens have been arrested on terrorism charges.
More than 20 people from around the country faced domestic terrorism charges Monday after dozens in black masks attacked the site of a police training center under construction in a wooded area outside Atlanta where one protester was killed in January.
Among those arrested was Ehret Nottingham, of Colorado, Fox News reported.
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Well, they can’t lie that it was “mostly peaceful”, maybe — but they’re going to lie by omission about some very significant details. Details like the identity of one of the other protesters arrested as a domestic terrorist.
An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center was arrested for domestic terrorism in a group of 23 who allegedly violently attacked the future site of an Atlanta police training facility.
Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, was rounded up with the other violent protesters for throwing Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, and bricks at the facility.
Well, well, well… isn’t that interesting…
The SPLC is the older, richer, slicker grand-daddy of the likes of New Zealand’s “Centre for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism”. Like the CPCRVE (no wonder they went for a catchy Te Gibberish alternative name), the SPLC’s stock-in-trade is smearing anyone and everyone as “far-right extremists” (although wackers like Kidman and Spoonley can only dream of raking in the sort of millions the SPLC scams every year).
Only, now, it looks like they’ve got some violent extremists of their own to answer for.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said that the attacks were coordinated and resulted in various pieces of construction equipment set afire.
The Georgia Department of Public Safety said some of the protesters tried to blind officers through the use of green lasers.
“This was a very violent attack, very violent attack,” said Schierbaum. “This wasn’t about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy, and this was about the attempt to destabilize, and we are addressing that quickly.”
Do we get to prescribe the SPLC as a terrorist entity, now?
After all, they’re not even trying to disown their home-grown terrorist.
The SPLC responded to the arrest with a statement claiming Jurgens was at the attack in an official capacity.
“Law enforcement detained at least 35 demonstrators in Atlanta on Sunday, including an SPLC employee who was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer,” read the statement.
The Blaze
Is this what legal observers normally do?
They changed into black clothing and entered the construction area and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers. The agitators destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism. Multiple law enforcement agencies deployed to the area and detained several people committing illegal activity
MEAWW
I’m not the only one asking if the SPLC will apply its own standards to itself.
The irony did not go unnoticed by critics of the SPLC, known for tracking “domestic hate groups and other extremists” and including in its “hate map” such mainstream conservative organizations as the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council.
“Will the SPLC be listing itself as a hate group?” asked Rep. Dan Bishop, North Carolina Republican, on Twitter.
Popular right-tilting podcaster Tim Pool tweeted: “The SPLC employs terrorists??”
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton asked: “So is SPLC officially a domestic terrorist group?”
Washington Times
Oh, we all know the answer to that one: it’s never “hate” when they do it.
