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Something tells me this summer is shaping up to be a bloodbath. We're barely into spring, and already we're in the throes of two major, ongoing, progressive street riots -- the race-riots in Cincinnati, and the trade riots in Quebec. We already know that most of California is going to spend the summer enmeshed in a third-world-style energy shortage; we've heard that there's good reason to expect similar shortages in New York and other urban areas. We know what happens when we have blackouts in major cities -- that's right, riots. This summer's going to be a beaut.
The especially worrisome thing, to my mind, is that there's pretty much zero direct relationship between the two riots. The Quebec demonstrations are being sparked primarily by radical left-wing labor and environmentalist groups, while the Cincinnati riots are, quite simply, flat-out race riots -- though you won't hear the mainstream media report that. (According to the New York Times, a week's worth of bloody street violence isn't a riot, it's "sporadic protests and vandalism.") The vast majority of the violence has been black-on-white, white-owned shops and businesses are the primary targets of vandalism and looting, and white citizens are the primary targets of the violence. People are getting pulled out of their cars, beaten on the sidewalk, so forth. Bricks through windows. All that good stuff. A Cincinnati grand jury has gone so far as to indict sixty-two alleged rioters for, among other things, "hate crimes" -- against white citizens. So little relationship do the Cincinnati riots bear to the left-wing agenda of the Quebec demonstrators that two members of the "far left Revolutionary Communist Party" were just hospitalized after trying to join in the Cincinnati riots. They were, unfortunately for them, white, and were hence immediately set upon by the mob they tried to join. Whoopsie.
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