Daily Verse | Job 24:22-23
“But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life. He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.”
Thursday and the beat goes on.
Resident Biden gave a speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa, OK, massacre, an inexcusable and shameful mark on our nation’s record. (The massacre, I mean, not Biden’s speech, although I’ll get to that in a second.)
The Tulsa Massacre began over an alleged assault on a white teenage girl by a black teenage boy. At least 39 people died (26 black and 13 white) in bloody riots led by mobs of white men who burned down “Black Wall Street” in the Greenwood District of Tulsa. Churches, businesses and homes were destroyed, 6,000 African Americans were detained like criminals, and hundreds were left homeless. If you haven’t read about it, I encourage you to do that. It was one of the worst cases of racial violence in our history, it was memory-holed, and it should be remembered with horror and sadness.
Biden, the promised Uniter-in-Chief, couldn’t have been more divisive in his speechmaking in Tulsa. While it’s appropriate to recognize the cold-blooded injustice and hatred driving the massacre, his handlers used the occasion to drive the racial wedge deeper and to perpetuate the lie that at our core, America is a racist nation, full of white supremacists who are the greatest threat we face today.
That is, of course, a great pile of horsepucky.
Nevertheless, he persisted. “We must address what remains the stain on the soul of America,” he declared. “What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism, with a through-line that exists today.”
He is absolutely correct that it was an act of hate. But domestic terrorism? That’s an add-on that stretches the meaning of terrorism. It was added so that he could then draw a “through-line” to his insistence that “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.”
And listen to how he couched that claim: “As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists. That’s not me. That’s the intelligence community under both Trump and under my administration.“
As Bugs Bunny says, “What an ultra maroon!”
We all know how reliable the “intelligence community” was under Trump, don’t we? It’s hard to imagine that Biden appealing to the Deep State gives his claim credibility with anyone except True Believers Who Truly Believe.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this claim since January 6. As Tyler O’Neil wrote, it’s roots are found in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot:
Democrats have drafted legislation to combat domestic terrorism and some of them have not been subtle about the targets of budding new government surveillance.
Former CIA Director John Brennan warned against an “unholy alliance” including “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians” that “looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas.” These remarks came amid leftist calls for “deprogramming,” “de-Baathification,” “re-educating,” and “reprogramming” the 75 million people who voted for Trump.
Even Democrat former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has vocally warned against leftists “who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance.”
We’re being gas-lit. There’s no impending white supremacy terrorist threat in the homeland today. The fiction that the January 6 riot was an “armed insurrection” is a damnable lie. While the rioters damaged the building and should not have gone inside, they were unarmed, they killed no one, the only “takeover” was someone sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s office, and the only person who was killed was an unarmed female Trump supporter shot by a still unnamed Capitol Hill police officer.
Yet the junta in Washington, D.C. has seized on the opportunity to fabricate an imminent threat. Why?
Because they’re laying the groundwork to consolidate their gains and impose a surveillance state on us. We stand in the way of their lunatic vision. As Robert Spencer observes,
When Biden talks about “white supremacy,” what he really means are ordinary citizens who oppose the dominant political philosophy. Lies like what Biden is spreading here are in service of solidifying the hegemony of that philosophy.
By repeating the lie, it gains credence with the public at large. It also puts any objection to the dishonest characterization in the position of seeming to validate the claim. If white supremacist terrorism is the most urgent threat we face, then any semblance of “white” activism pushing back on the claim will be touted as “evidence” of the threat we face. That may be enough to put the kibosh on individual efforts to organize a response.
The only imminent threat we face is from the unholy cabal in the White House. Biden had an opportunity to acknowledge the pain and trauma inflicted on innocent black Americans and to highlight how far we’ve come since then. Instead he demonized white Americans and deepened the divide with his dishonest agitprop, all in service to his radical agenda to finish the sinister transformation of America that began under Barack Hussein Obama.