<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Good Morning Visionaries:</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I want to thank Tom Hansen for posted my Daily News version of this column, and also thanks to him for the passage from Wilson's blog that prompted the piece. The long version contains these paragraphs on the so-called Violent Left.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">nfg</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">Tens of Thousands of Peaceful Protestors<span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">A week
after the Charlottesville tragedy, tens of thousands protested peacefully in
Boston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, and Laguna Beach. An estimated 40,000
showed up in Boston, and apart from 27 arrests for disorderly conduct, the
protestors were peaceful. A small group harassed a man wearing a Trump hat, but
the Associated Press reported that “other counter-protesters intervened and
helped the man safely over a fence where the conservative rally was to be
staged.”<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">Many False Claims about Antifa<span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">Black-clad
members of Antifa, a small anti-Fascist organization, have been responsible for
disrupting dozens of right-wing talks and rallies across the country. Antifa and peaceful protestors are not
allies, whereas the LOS, the KKK, and the neo-Nazis coordinate their hate-filled
actions. I join many others in strongly condemning Antifa’s attempts to
undermine free speech rights. <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">Charges
that Antifa has committed violence against individual white nationalists have
not been proved or are outright false. Snopes.com has shown that an alleged
Antifa manual that urges violence and a flyer calling for the murder of white
children are fraudulent documents. The anti-Semitic language in the latter is
actually evidence that it was made by a white nationalist. An alleged Antifa
knife attack on a man in Sheridan, Colorado on August 24 turned out to be
self-inflicted. See more exoneration of
Antifa at <a href="http://snopes.com">snopes.com</a>.<b><span></span></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif">Right-Wing Extremists Kill 275; Antifa Kills
None<span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0.1pt">Marilyn Mayo, senior research fellow
for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, reports that “over the
past decade, extremists of every stripe have </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/murder-and-extremism-in-the-united-states-in-2016" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0.1pt;text-decoration-line:none">killed</span></a></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0.1pt"> 372 Americans, and 74 percent of those killings were committed by
right wing extremists. Only 2 percent of those deaths were at the hands of left
wing extremists,” and none by Antifa members.
Antifa activists do not carry guns, but most white nationalists do.</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">So much for the Violent Left. Fake News! Sad!</font></div><font face="georgia, serif">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="height:auto;width:auto"> <div> <div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><div style=""><font face="georgia, serif">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. <br style=""><br style="">-Greek proverb</font></div><div style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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