By Any Means Necessary: It Won't Stop with Andy Ngo | Belmont Club

By Any Means Necessary: It Won't Stop with Andy Ngo | Belmont Club
"Hints that the already high levels of political hostility were about to reach record intensity gathered like storm warnings in the press last week. 
According to the New York Times, "Oregon’s 11 Senate Republicans fled their state with little more than spare underwear and their passports. 
They disappeared into Idaho cabins and motels" to avoid voting for taxes on climate change.

...That chaos and divisiveness bordered on open revolt. 
Jimmy Carter suggested that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would show that Donald Trump was illegitimate. 
Not to be outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro says President Trump liked to terrorize immigrant families by postponing ICE raids until after July 4th. 
To hear the politicians talk America was living under a tyranny.

The politicians were if anything restrained compared to the press. 

A guest editorial in the New York Times argued that since the treatment of migrants likely "meets the definition of a mass atrocity," it would be good if government officials were identified and charged with war crimes.

[T]he identities of the individual Customs and Border Protection agents who are physically separating children from their families and staffing the detention centers are not undiscoverable. Immigration lawyers have agent names; journalists reporting at the border have names, photos and even videos. These agents’ actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities ...

The individuals running detention centers are arguably directly responsible for torture ... activists should ... should lobby for human rights investigations, for other governments to deny entry visas to those involved in the abuses, or even for the initiation of torture prosecutions in foreign courts.

...There was in the drumbeat a buildup suggestive of teams psyching themselves to do something bold, building up a mood of defiance and despair so incandescent that Andy Ngo, a conservative journalist preparing to cover an event in Oregon, feared for his safety.  He tweeted on June 29, "I am nervous about tomorrow’s Portland antifa rally. They’re promising 'physical confrontation' & have singled me out to be assaulted." 
There were actual leaflets announcing the planned attack on Ngo..."

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