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UN to Create Blacklist of Companies Doing Business With Israel
Aug 31st, 2017
CommentarySEAN SAVAGE/JNS.ORG
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

An upcoming "blacklist" of major international companies with business ties to Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem represents yet another attempt by anti-Israel actors in the United Nations to single out and demonize the world's only Jewish state, experts say. 

The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) had voted to approve the database of businesses last year, defying objections from the U.S. and Israel. 

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein submitted a draft of the blacklist to the countries where the businesses are based. 

He is expected to receive a response from those nations by Sept. 1, and the UNHRC will publish the database by the end of this year. 

American firms on the list include Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline and Airbnb, The Washington Post reported.

"The blacklist is the latest incarnation of the decades-long Arab boycott and yet another singling out of Israel by the U.N. Because Israel, the Jewish state, alone is singled out, the intent and impact is anti-Semitic," Anne Herzberg, a U.N. expert and the legal advisor for the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor watchdog group, told JNS.org.

Similarly, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon described the list as "an expression of modern anti-Semitism reminiscent of dark periods in history."

While the list will have no legal consequences for Israel or the companies involved, its opponents say it could put pressure on the U.N. Security Council to take action.

Supporters of the list draw inspiration from efforts to target international businesses that were involved in apartheid-era South Africa as well as Arab-led boycotts of Israel as a means to pressure the Jewish state to change its policies regarding the Palestinians and the disputed territories.

But Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, a research fellow for Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, said the list will likely do the opposite and undermine any chances for a two-state solution.

"First and foremost, this is because such a 'blacklist' serves to strengthen the common Israeli perception of a hostile international community which is united against the Jewish state," Hatuel-Radoshitzky told JNS.org. 

She said, "This paradigm strengthens the hardliners and works against the moderate camp that perceives the two-state solution--which ultimately necessitates compromises from Israel--as the desired alternative."

UN's credibility

The blacklist also "serves to undermine the credibility of the UNHRC in specific and to further taint the U.N. in general," Hatuel-Radoshitzky said.

Since taking over as U.N. secretary-general in January, Portugal's António Guterres has attempted to take a more evenhanded approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after years of disproportionate criticism of Israel by the world body.

"As secretary-general of the United Nations, I consider that the state of Israel needs to be treated as any other state," Guterres said in an address to the World Jewish Congress in April. 

"I have already had the opportunity to show that I'm ready to abide by that principle even when that forces me to take some decisions that create some uncomfortable situations," he added, referencing a move he made to squash a report by former U.N. official Rima Khalaf that called Israel an "apartheid state."

Herzberg said that while it does not appear Guterres is in favor of the of the blacklist, it might be impossible for him to stop its release.

"Due to the U.N. bureaucracy and the dominance of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, it would be difficult if not impossible for the secretary-general to halt the process," she said.

According to Herzberg, such reports are often compiled by a "narrow sector" of political activists and NGOs, many who are linked to terror groups and the BDS movement.

"Many U.N. officials were formerly employed by these partisan organizations and harbor extreme anti-Israel views," she said. 

US response

The Trump administration recently urged the human rights commissioner, Hussein, not to publish the blacklist. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called the list "shameful" and "counterproductive" to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

"It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected," Haley said.

In June, the U.S. indicated that it may replace its membership in the UNHRC with "other means" for addressing human rights issues, unless the U.N. body significantly reforms its conduct and anti-Israel bias.

At the same time, more than 20 U.S. states have passed legislation in recent years opposing the BDS movement, by requiring state institutions to cease any business with companies that boycott the Jewish state.

Both federal and state measures against BDS "will be effective in blunting the impact of the blacklist," Herzberg said, adding she believes U.S. leadership will be essential in curbing the effectiveness of the U.N. blacklist.

"Countries and companies will have to decide--do they want to do business in the U.S. or side with the bigots of the U.N., the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation," she said

New Bill Would Force Healthcare Workers to use Correct Pronouns or Face Jail
Aug 31st, 2017
CommentaryDANIEL LANG/SHTFPLAN.COM
Categories: Contemporary Issues

One could argue that the bedrock of Western civilization is built on the individual right to free speech. 

It's hard to imagine how we would have ever become the most peaceful and technologically advanced civilization on the planet, if people weren't allowed to hash out ideas, speak their minds, and stand up for what they think is true.

Which is why we should be so alarmed by the fact that so many leftists hold the first amendment in low regard. And we should be frightened that polls show a large percentage of the population doesn't respect free speech. 

In Canada, you can be fined or even thrown in jail for deliberately using the wrong pronouns (in both cases, these laws are enforced by "human rights commissions"). 

And now in California, there's a piece of legislation that would threaten to do the same thing for certain healthcare workers.

The bill, which passed the California state senate in May, has moved into the California state assembly as part of a slew of gender-based "anti-discrimination" laws designed to protect California residents who don't believe they fall into the gender binary.

Titled the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents Bill of Rights," the new law would allow transgender individuals living in care facilities like nursing homes to use bathrooms in line with their preferred gender (not necessarily their biological gender), and would punish any caregiver who "knowingly" uses the wrong gender pronoun to refer to one of their patients.

Use "he" instead of "she" and you could face a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail for gender-based discrimination and harassment. The law, which says "knowingly," does not seem to identify a specific standard, leaving interpretation of motive up to authorities.

It also doesn't even specify how many times someone can use the wrong pronoun before being hauled to court. It's vague laws like this that will be the death of free speech in America. 

They don't even need to threaten all forms of speech to spoil public discourse. 

These laws just need to make us nervous about saying the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, accidentally or deliberately, before people start to police their own thoughts and words.

This is just the beginning. If we don't stand up to this trend of governments compelling their citizens to avoid saying offensive things, it won't be long before we aren't allowed (or are too afraid) to say anything of substance at all.

Mcmaster's Troubling Record Regarding Iran, Israel and Radical Islam
Aug 31st, 2017
CommentaryMORTON A. KLEIN/ALGEMEINER.COM
Categories: Contemporary Issues

The Zionist Organization of America's August 2017 report detailed US National Security Chief General H.R. McMaster's troubling record regarding Iran, Israel and radical Islamist terrorism. 

McMaster's statements and actions appear to be diametrically opposed to President Donald Trump's support for Israel, opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and determination to name and combat radical Islamist terrorism.

Critics of ZOA's report have failed to show that ZOA's report was wrong in any substantive respect. The criticisms have amounted to name-calling against ZOA, and McMaster's friends vouching for his character -- which is irrelevant to the vital policy issues addressed in ZOA's report.

McMaster reportedly wrongly refers to the existence of a Palestinian state before 1947 -- when no Palestinian state ever existed, and maligns Israel as an "illegitimate," "occupying power." 

In fact, Israel's re-establishment in 1948 and her self-defensive capture of Judea/Samaria (West Bank) in 1967 were both legal under binding international law, and deprived no country of its sovereign territory.

McMaster wrongly claimed that President Trump would recognize "Palestinian self determination" during his visit to Israel; reportedly opposed President Trump's visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall, refused to state that the Western Wall is in Israel, and insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not accompany President Trump to the Western Wall.

And alarmingly, when Israel installed metal detectors at Jerusalem's Temple Mount after Palestinian terrorists smuggled in firearms and murdered two Israeli policemen, McMaster, according to a senior defense official, described this as "just another excuse by the Israelis to repress the Arabs."

In his short tenure at the National Security Council (NSC), General McMaster has fired or removed from the NSC six staunchly pro-Israel/anti-Iran officials: Steve Bannon; K.T. McFarland; Adam Lovinger; Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey and Ezra Cohen-Watnick.

McMaster quickly removed Bannon, architect of much of President Trump's pro-Israel, anti-Islamist terrorism agenda, from the Principals Committee of the NSC. McMaster also promptly removed K.T. McFarland, a key member of the team of Iran deal opponents originally assembled by President Trump, and a veteran pro-Israel national security professional in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations.  

She was shunted off to be ambassador to Singapore. Lovinger, a pro-Israel national security strategist from the Pentagon, was returned to the Pentagon with his security clearance revoked.

McMaster also sacked Iran "hawk" Rich Higgins, the NSC's director of strategic planning, after Higgins wrote a memo about personnel opposed to President Trump's foreign policy agenda.  

McMaster removed Derek Harvey, senior director for the Middle East, who has been described by former Army Vice Chief of Staff General Jack Keane as "hands down the very best intelligence analyst that the United States government has on Iraq," after Harvey prepared a list of NSC Obama-era holdovers. 

McMaster should have removed the personnel on Harvey's list -- but instead fired Harvey. And McMaster also fired Cohen-Watnick, a staunch opponent of the Iran deal, who sought to intensify efforts to counter Iran in in the Middle East and rein in officials opposed to the president's policies.

McMaster's replacements and appointees are on the wrong side of the issues of concern. McMaster appointed Colonel Kris Bauman, who has blamed Israel for Palestinian terror and urged Israel to negotiate with Hamas, to work on the Israel-Palestinian desk. 

Bauman is working to revive General Jim Allen's defective and dangerous Obama-era plan for Palestinian statehood. McMaster also replaced K.T. McFarland with Dina Habib-Powell -- a defender of Huma Abedin and friend of pro-Iran-deal Obama era figures such as Valerie Jarett.

As PJ Media New York editor David Steinberg wrote: "One is hard-pressed to identify a member of the NSC brought in by McMaster with a history of aligning with President Trump on Iran or with his Mideast policy in general."

A White House official estimated that well over fifty percent of the NSC staff are Obama holdovers.

McMaster has also promoted certifying that Iran is in compliance with the Iran deal -- even though Iran: banned International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from its Parchin nuclear facility; refused to allow IAEA investigators to interview Iran's nuclear scientists; and has repeatedly tested intercontinental ballistic missiles in violation of UN Security Council resolutions; and despite German intelligence reports that Iran is cheating on the deal.

And when pressed about Iran's violations, McMaster inaccurately and misleadingly stated that Iran is merely violating the Iran deal's "spirit." This flies the face of President Trump's promise to tear up or rigorously enforce the Iran deal and punish violations.

Mirroring the Obama administration's practices, McMaster opposes using the term "radical Islamic terrorism" or other indicia of terrorists' jihadist ideology.

It's notable that those who have castigated ZOA's detailed critique of McMaster have failed to refute a single ZOA concern. They merely condemned ZOA as wrong and scurrilous. 

The most that any of ZOA's critics could offer was the "opinion" of anonymous Israeli officials that McMaster is a "friend" and that there is "no need to agree with every position McMaster has taken."

Another issue that's been ignored is why has a bevy of anti-Trump, anti-Israel activists and groups -- including CNN's Van Jones, Media Matters, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- leapt to Trump appointee McMaster's defense. 

Yet they never leapt to defend the pro-Israel David Friedman's appointment as ambassador to Israel when he was criticized. Meanwhile, many strong supporters of Israel have supported ZOA's critique of McMaster's actions.

All of ZOA's critics have two things in common. They use ugly, nonsensical, vacuous name-calling ​to​ defend McMaster and they ​fail to ​refute a single issue of concern ZOA raised. 

The critics'​ inability to address ZOA's​ numerous concerns only strengthens ZOA's​ case about McMaster's hostility to Israel and ​failure to take strong action against Iran and radical Islami​st​ terrorism.

Let the Headlines Speak
Aug 31st, 2017
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Hurricane Katrina, Harvey, and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
No sooner than the Trump trio, of White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Habib Powell (born in Egypt and living in Texas), came to the Middle East, meeting with Israeli and Palestinian officials, then shuttling to meetings with leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan, to try and restart the Israeli-Palestinian “Peace Process,” Hurricane Harvey began to hit Texas, with its G-D given power of destruction. Now, exactly twelve years later, Louisiana is being hit again too.

Irma expected to be hurricane by week’s end
Tropical Storm Irma picked up strength Wednesday and is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday or Friday, making it the fourth hurricane of an increasingly busy season.

Eclipse Prophecies Foretold Hurricane Harvey as Hand of God Revealed in Heavens
One week before a rare solar eclipse transversed the continental United States, Breaking Israel News ran a series of articles concerning the prophetic implications of the event. Four days later, a hurricane of Biblical proportions slammed into the Gulf Coast of Texas, conforming precisely to the predictions and leading to deeper understandings of the prophecies.

Asteroid Florence NEARS: Huge 5km-wide asteroid heads to Earth and you can see it TONIGHT
Asteroid 1981 ET3, also known as Florence, will skim past Earth on September 1 at a distance of seven million kilometres.

Jews pray outside ‘Messianic Jewish’ church in Arad
Messianic Judaism is a Christian movement which claims to “combine” Christianity with Judaism. Followers believe that Jesus is the messiah, but follow various elements of Jewish tradition.

‘Fake News is at its peak’
“They present Israel as an isolated state, as a backward country, they simply do not want Israeli citizens to see success. It just does not fit their narrative, but what can we do? Everyone sees the success,” said the prime minister. “The ‘Fake News’ industry is at its peak.

After tense negotiations, UN agrees to renew peacekeepers in Lebanon 
The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew the mandate for a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on Wednesday, following tense negotiations amid US and Israeli criticism that UN troops should do more to stop Hezbollah gaining arms. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) – established in 1978 – patrols Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.

Americans Spend More on Taxes Than Food and Clothing Combined
Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2016 than they did on food and clothing combined, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The same data also shows that in three years—from 2013 to 2016—the average tax bill for Americans increased 41.13 percent…The average tax bill for American “consumer units” increased from $7,423 in 2013 to $10,489 in 2016, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jordan refuses to accept Israeli ambassador’s return
Five weeks after the evacuation of the Israeli embassy in Jordan following the attack incident in which an Israeli security guard shot and killed two Jordanians in apparent self defense, Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Einat Shlain and the embassy staff have yet to return to Jordan, and the diplomatic crisis is far from being resolved.

Google-funded thinktank fired scholar over criticism of tech firm
An influential Washington thinktank that has received more than $21m in funding from Google and its chairman Eric Schmidt dropped a team of scholars after its leader wrote an article praising the European Union’s decision to fine the tech giant.

Houston floods: ‘Worst not yet over,’ says Texas governor
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said “the worst is not yet over” for the south-east of the US state, after devastating Tropical Storm Harvey. Rain continues to fall, he said, and flooding in certain areas may last another week. More than 20 people are reported dead and large parts of Houston, Port Arthur and Beaumont are under water.

University Fires Professor Who Called Hurricane Harvey “Karma” For Texas
“…assistant professor of sociology Kenneth Storey made comments on a private Twitter account that do not reflect UT’s community views or values. We condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them…Storey has been relieved of his duties at UT…”

As Harvey Moves Inland, A New Hurricane Is Forming Over The Atlantic
“There is the potential to ramp up to a powerful hurricane in the coming days…”

Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Wait . . . did Louis Farrakhan just declare Jesus is Lord?
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 84 years old. We all know the Islamic radicalism and racial division he’s been preaching for decades, so there’s no reason to go over it in detail here. But what’s this? Farrakhan released this video yesterday, and if it’s what it appears to be on first glace, he’s made quite a radical change of direction:

Priest Resigns Over Hindu Procession
A Catholic vicar in North Africa resigned in disgrace Monday, following church officials’ outrage at his decision to welcome a Hindu procession into the cathedral.

Liberals Now Want to Abolish ‘Father’s Day’- Here’s What They Want it Changed To
Political correctness is not just spreading out of control in the United States, it has now spread to Australia.  A campaign was launched to rename “Father’s Day” and the idea is gaining traction among certain groups. The campaign was launched by Red Ruby Scarlet, who has a doctorate in early childhood studies, and thinks that Father’s Day is unfair to children that have no father present in their life. As a result, Scarlet is proposing that ‘Father’s Day’ be changed to “Special Persons’ Day.”

Disturbing Rise of Militant Revolutionary Groups
Aug 31st, 2017
CommentaryDAISY LUTHER/ORGANIC PREPPER
Categories: Contemporary Issues

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is Antifa on steroids. An offshoot group that has popped up has a website with some pretty extreme ideas, including expropriation of property from their enemies. They've declared war against capitalism and the state, promoting "militant defense."

Their intro says:

We situate our political movement in the context of the abolitionist struggle against slavery and continue in the tradition, from Nat Turner to the Black Liberation Movement. We believe the Civil War was never resolved and the system of slavery transitioned into the prison industrial complex. Our struggle today must begin from this starting point. 

Lastly, as revolutionary anarchists, the abolitionist struggle must be extended to the state and capitalism, the perpetrators of oppression. The revolutionary movement in the US today is at a cross roads, as fascist movements are expanding, and the state becomes increasingly authoritarian.

They want to build a new Underground Railroad to free people from detention, incarceration, deportation, or white supremacist violence. They welcome "comrades" to aid in their efforts to build "organized defense groups, local councils, and regional/national councils."

Their political foundation consists of:

Self-Defense

The Neighborhood Council

Conflict Resolution and Revolutionary Justice

Abolition of Gender

Expropriation and the Cooperative Economy

While all of these are alarming, I'm particularly concerned about their calls for "self-defense," "revolutionary justice," and "expropriation.

Let's look at what they have to say about these topics through a variety of direct quotes.

Militant Self Defense

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement endorses "militant" self-defense, citing the tactics of the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, and the Rojava Revolution in Syria. They model themselves, particularly, after the Rojavas.

The training of these new militants is the revolutionary heart of the Rojava Revolution. The long-term intentions of the training programs are to ensure that everyone can participate in self-defense. To that extent, there are also localized training programs that arm the public for a second tier of neighborhood defense. The Self Defense Forces (HPC*) were formed for this purpose. 

While specific armed groups, such as the People's Protection Units and Asayîş, have been formed to fight external enemies, the HPC are civilians that get arms training with the specific goal of maintaining autonomy against internal forces that might seek to consolidate power. They are volunteers who receive both political education and self-defense training.

These armed groups are able to defend their communities from attacks without compromising revolutionary values. As the YPG and YPJ liberate ISIS territory new communities become incorporated into their political project. Rather than establish a top-down system of governance, the revolutionary movement establishes new neighborhood councils and communes, feminist education programs, and decentralized local-based militias within each liberated town. 

To implement this form of political organization, there is undoubtedly a give and take. While the towns receive the infrastructure necessary for self-governance, such as weapons and training from the YPG to set up their own, local defense groups, they agree to uphold certain social principles like feminism and social ecology. 

One tactic they endorse is, basically, beating up "Nazis."

Anti-fascist tactics - focused primarily around the use of physical force--proved effective in forcing neo-Nazi groups out of entire neighborhoods. The tactics were simple, if they came upon a neo-Nazi, they would use sufficient force to drive them away. The network was so successful that it eventually grew to 100 chapters. By joining in a nationwide network, they were able to help spread and strengthen the model while still maintaining local control over each chapter. 

Of course, who gets to decide whether someone is a Nazi? Must the person be wearing a swastika t-shirt or a white hood? Or is this just an arbitrary decision based on the color of their skin or who they voted for? You can see how easily this could go downhill.

They offer to train anyone in self-defense who wants it. But - they don't stop at "defense." In fact, offense is their plan. They intend to develop "the capacity to begin launching offensive actions against fascists and the regime." Their common enemies are "fascists, right-wing militias, and State forces. "

One place they may run into trouble is their desire to be egalitarian.

Successful self-defense must incorporate revolutionary values and practices. In Rojava, combatants are trained both in fighting techniques and the benefits of creating a feminist, egalitarian society. They put these values into effect through their relationships. 

For example, to dismantle the lingering effects of patriarchy, no man can give a woman an order; to maintain participation and egalitarian relationships, all fighters contribute to decision-making within units, particularly by selecting their own leaders for specific missions.

Revolutionary Justice

In the section on Revolutionary Justice, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement calls for an onslaught of violence against police officers. Now, I'm not a fan of the police state or police brutality any more than they are, but prison uprisings, civil unrest, violence against law enforcement, and riots are not the answer.

Every prison uprising from Attica* to Lucasville**, is an example of revolutionary justice. Every group that goes underground to launch clandestine attacks against bondage and oppression, like the Black Liberation Army or the United Freedom Front***, engages in acts of revolutionary justice. 

The uprisings of the 1960s in Watts, Newark, and Detroit, to the Los Angeles riots, and the recent insurrections in Ferguson and Baltimore sparked by executions from police are manifestations of revolutionary justice.

They appear to wholeheartedly endorse violence and even execution as the answers.

No platform, no dialogue, no inch of territory, and certainly no concern can be ceded to those who either threaten or unleash authoritarian, white supremacist violence. As the Italian anarchist, Alfredo M. Bonanno has eloquently put it, "The life of someone who oppresses others and prevents them from living is not worth a cent." 

They condemn those who call for peaceful protest.

Revolutionary justice is an unpredictable, yet inevitable, element in revolutionary struggle. As we move towards liberation, there will be spontaneous eruptions, moments to support and side with, as well as alliances to create. The more power tries to suppress the population, the more defiant the acts of revolutionary justice become...

...When police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, the town erupted in riots. No sooner had they begun this act of defiance, when non-profits and faith "leaders" descended upon the town to induce people to protest "peacefully" and attempted to de-escalate the situation. 

On the other hand, riot police and armed right-wing militias surrounded the rebels, cornered them in a sea of "illegality" by declaring curfews, and then swept people up with brutal arrests and long jail terms. 

Without revolutionary objectives, or the foundations for a sustained revolutionary conflict, everyone had to, eventually, reconcile living with the oppressive State that they were just rebelling against when the riot subsided.

The most essential tasks are to create the ideological underpinnings for revolt and the necessary infrastructure that can sustain action and long-term forms of organization. 

They intend on long-term revolt and plan to "derail forces that want to bring people back into the fold of power: nonprofits, political parties, and authoritarian political groups."

Expropriation of Property

First, let's call expropriation what it really is: theft. But the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement believes it's entirely justified as long as they're the ones doing it.

Revolutionary struggle necessitates an aspiration for collectivity. Those who exploit us and withhold the fruits of our work from us will not willingly give up their wealth and power. To carve out autonomous territory, or to begin the revolutionary process, goods, land, and tools must be expropriated, or taken away from those who withhold them. 

They cite a group they admire in Greece:

For example, revolutionary anarchist groups in Athens have been working with refugees from the Syrian Civil War. The refugees are routinely attacked by fascists and often denied housing, food, and health care. Anarchist groups have taken over abandoned hotels and have invited refugees to live in them.

They gush over how businesses were taken over from the owners during the Spanish Civil War.

For expropriation to be a successful tactic political organizations must already be in place. As goods and production are taken over, they can be put into collective hands, and organized for communal use. 

During the Spanish Civil War, workplaces were seized after the owners fled or stopped production to sabotage the revolution. Revolutionaries continued until all major places of work were taken over; many were run and controlled by the workers. In others committees were established to override a lingering boss. 

They're jazzed about collectivism.

While conducting the military struggle on the front, militants in the rearguard helped form workers' councils and rural communes, and since anarchists were at the forefront of the struggle, the council-based system was remarkably egalitarian. Workers seized factories, peasants collectivized the land, and even the revolutionary militias were organized in a participatory and non-hierarchical fashion as a result of the anarchist struggle. 

Indeed, the revolutionary militias were formed in a similarly horizontal manner as the collectives, which reciprocally provided them with both weapons and other provisions. The symbiotic relationship between the worker's councils, collectivized land projects, and horizontal militias demonstrates how the political foundation facilitated cooperation between each of the three organizational structures. 

Of course, they leave out the part about how collective agriculture has a long history of abject and utter failure. Most recently an attempt to convert a thriving capitalist country into a socialist utopia has resulted in mass starvation and poverty in Venezuela. But they're pretty sure it would work differently here and now.

You can be certain that if you were personally well stocked and others were hungry, folks like these would feel completely entitled to your supplies.

It all boils down to communism.

People got upset when I posted an article about a communist group last week who was planning sedition against our country. They said that I was name-calling when I referred to them as communists.

This leads me to believe that there are a lot of folks who don't know what communism IS.

Communism is:

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their needs.

It is the opposite of capitalism:

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Communism abolishes private property and personal profit and redistributes wealth. Here are the tenets of the Revolutionary Abolition Movement. 

When you read them with these definitions in mind, is there any other word that fits so well?

The Abolitionist struggle must take up the immediate fight to abolish prisons, courts, and ICE detention facilities.

As Abolitionists, we must fight unequivocally with Black, Latino, Native, Muslim people, and all those subjected to prison society and white supremacy.

This struggle must be feminist, and predicated on queer and trans liberation.

The Abolitionist struggle must fight for decentralized, commune-based political organization, and stand resolutely against capitalism and the State.

The struggle must be oriented toward militant self-defense, and devise specific plans for offensive actions against reactionary forces.

The Abolitionist long-term goal is to get rid of the justice system, the nation-state, and the capitalist economy. 

Really, this is the culmination of decades of indoctrination in the Marxist education system. But these people who think they're seeking "freedom" would end up with just the opposite should their communist dreams come true. The underlying theme throughout their document is:

We will burn down the American plantation once and for all.

Extremist factions like this could trigger the Civil War 2.0 about which many of us have been concerned. A lot of folks like to shrug and laugh off these liberals because of their distaste for firearms and traditionally masculine pursuits.

But, that could be a huge mistake.

Never underestimate a zealot, no matter how misguided they are or ridiculous they seem.