By Jon Sutz, Editor, SaveTheWest.com
- The hate, threats and terrorism that we are witnessing against conservative political figures, ICE and CBP agents, and even their children, is following a very similar theme.
- That theme was written, publicized and justified — practically verbatim — by HuffPost, including the physical violence component. This is an extension of the hatred that HuffPost has been inciting against conservatives at all levels, for years.
- HuffPost does all this while insisting to the public, and its mainstream corporate advertisers, that it is a completely nonpartisan, professional newspaper, that does not allow hate or incitement of any kind.
The escalating, unprecedented wave of radical leftists stalking, inciting violence and publishing terrorist threats against conservative figures, ICE and CBP officers, and their families
Terrorism: “The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
Since mid-June 2018, there has been a familiar, escalating theme in reports of radical leftists stalking, harassing, threatening and violently assaulting Republican political figures, along with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) agents, and even their children. While subversive leftist and anarchist groups perpetrated many of these incidents, in several notable cases they were incited and justified by notable leftist “celebrities” and Democratic political figures. Incidents just between June 19-24 include the following (in chronological order):
- June 19: Leftists stalked and harassed DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and a guest at a Washington, DC restaurant — on video.
- June 19: Leftist actor Tom Arnold posted Tweets threatening to stalk and harass 11-year-old Baron Trump, and President Trump’s grandchildren.
- June 20: Leftist actor Peter Fonda posted a Tweet threatening to kidnap 11-year-old Baron Trump, and place him in a cage with pedophiles, presumably to facilitate him being raped — then more Tweets, threatening to stalk and harass ICE agents and their children.
- June 20: In response to Donald Trump, Jr.’s expression of outrage on Twitter, regarding Fonda’s threats against Baron and ICE officers, leftist TV writer Pat Dassault posted a Tweet in which he said, “Don’t worry, we’re coming for Chloe, too,” referring to Trump, Jr.’s four-year-old daughter:
- June 20: The New York affiliate of the radical leftist group Occupy Wall St. posted on Twitter a graphic instruction guide that explicitly urged illegal aliens to murder ICE officers, by cutting their hearts out, then showing it to other ICE officers, as a terrorist warning to prevent them from interfering with those who break into the USA:
- June 20: The leftist terrorist group ANTIFA publicly posted a list of 1,600 ICE agents across America, with explicit urging for their followers to stalk and harass them.
- June 20: ANTIFA began posting graphics on Twitter that contain intimate details about ICE officers in Oregon and Washington state, including their pictures, spouses’ and children’s names, home addresses, phone numbers, pictures of their homes, and more, with explicit urging to physically force these “Gestapo agents” out of their cities — atop a picture of a pick-axe breaking a sheet of ice (image details blurred by SaveTheWest):
- June 20-21: The ICE headquarters in Portland, OR was shut down for two days, and employees escorted out by armed guard, due to what the agency described as “security concerns.”
- June 22: Leftists stalked and harassed DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at her home — on video. The escalating threats against Nielsen prompted DHS to issue an agency-wide warning, advising employees to conceal their occupation when outside the work environment, and otherwise be aware of their surroundings.
- June 23: Leftists stalked, harassed and spit on Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi — on video — at a movie screening.
- June 23: Leftist restaurant owners ordered White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders out of their establishment.
- June 24: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a group of followers — on video — to stalk and harass Republican political appointees of the Trump administration, anywhere they can be found.
- June 25: According to ABC News, “a senior DHS official living in the Washington. D.C. area found a burnt and decapitated animal on his front porch.” Yet in the same story, according to ABC, the violent leftists who are protesting ICE are only “demanding justice.”
Note the consistency of the anarchy-oriented principles behind all these incidents
In the past, such incidents would have been vigorously denounced by figures from across the political spectrum, the perpetrators arrested, and the social media accounts on which they posted such materials being shut down. Yet in these cases, none of this has happened.
Instead, it’s almost as if a force with tremendous influence over the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the radical left that is taking it over, announced that such behavior is not only acceptable, but morally justified. That if someone disagrees with your political views, or is doing something with which you disagree, rather than using your First Amendment rights to speak out, in a civil, reasoned, persuasive manner:
- You should stalk and harass them, their children and their neighbors
- You will be morally justified if you threaten or physically attack them, or cause a riot, to advance your political beliefs
In fact, a force fitting this description did say these things, almost verbatim: it’s one of the most widely-read, advertiser-supported “news” sites in America: The Huffington Post.
Examples of HuffPost explicitly inciting and justifying “liberals” and leftists to stalk, harass and initiate violence anyone whom they consider a political enemy, and their families
Consider the following explicit incitement — published on HuffPost’s front page, beside ads for many of America’s biggest mainstream corporations. Note that in some incidents, such as in Example 1, this incitement was quickly followed by radical leftists perpetrating exactly what HuffPost explicitly advocated, and justified.
EXAMPLE 1: “Republicans should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public – in restaurants, in shopping centers… and on the public property outside their homes and apartments… [they] should not be able to attend any function, eat in public, or enjoy dinner at home [without being stalked by protesters].”
EXAMPLE 2: “Violent resistance matters. Riots can lead to major change.”
EXAMPLE 3: “Trump supporters deserve to die more than I do. The human species will be better off without them. These are the people who deserve to have their towns annihilated. They’re the ones who would have brought it on themselves.”
EXAMPLE 4: “Trump and everyone assisting in his agenda [must be brought up] on charges of treason. They must be convicted (there is little room to doubt their guilt). And then — upon receiving guilty verdicts — they must all be executed.”
EXAMPLE 1: “Republicans should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public – in restaurants, in shopping centers… and on the public property outside their homes and apartments… [they] should not be able to attend any function, eat in public, or enjoy dinner at home [without being stalked by protesters].”
The full quote:
“[Republicans] should be hounded by protestors everywhere, especially in public – in restaurants, in shopping centers, in their districts, and yes, on the public property outside their homes and apartments, in Washington and back in their home states. Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, should not be able to attend any function, eat in public, or enjoy dinner at home without hearing people expressing how his actions are harming their lives and their families’ lives in terrible ways.”
– “To Save America We Must Stop Being Polite And Immediately Start Raising Hell,” by Huffington Post “Gay Voices” editor Michelangelo Signorile
Addendum 1: Four days after Signorile’s editorial appeared on HuffPost’s front page [May 10, 2017], an organized group of notorious, violent radical leftists appeared at the home of Federal Communications Commission head Ajit Pai, and began loudly protesting and spreading hate literature about him to his neighbors. This occurred two weeks after HuffPost published a hate article against Pai as its splash headline — calling him, a man of color, a “sucker” — and was soon followed by copycat acts of stalking and harassment, and even violence, against non-leftist public officials:
Addendum 2: HuffPost continues to publicly enable and legitimize Signorile — and gave him an elevated role: Not only did HuffPost not fire Signorile after this explicit incitement and justification of stalking and harassment, and all the violent incidents that happened afterward, it promoted him — from “Gay Voices Editor,” a post he’d held since 2011, to “Editor-At-Large,” as proven by this June 25, 2018 screencap.
Addendum 3: Signorile justified a restaurant kicking press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders out, because according to him, she is “a liar”:
Sorry Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Liars Are Not A Protected Class, by Michelangelo Signorile, Huffington Post, June 24, 2018.
Signorile’s statement is quite ironic, given that it was HuffPost itself that, over the course of two years, from 2013-2015, perpetrated possibly the most consequential series of lies in American journalism history, by helping the Obama White House to deceive and bully the U.S. Senate into accepting the fraudulent Iran nuclear “deal.” See SaveTheWest’s special, expansive report on this issue:
EXAMPLE 2: “Violent resistance matters. Riots can lead to major change.”
This quote is found in:
Sorry Liberals, A Violent Response To Trump Is As Logical As Any, by Jesse Benn, Huffington Post
Following the publication of this article, in July 2016, leftists engaged in an escalating string of violent attacks on conservatives — and anyone whom they believed might be a Trump supporter. Examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Further, after Rep. Steve Scalise and other Republican Congressional representatives were shot by a radical leftist in June 2017, Benn took to Twitter to not only justify the attack, but urge that they become more organized:
For violent resistance to work it’d need to be organized. Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive/ineffective.
— Jesse Benn (@JesseBenn) June 14, 2017
What’s more harmful: Putting millions already on the margins more at-risk via draconian policies, or shooting a racist lawmaker in the hip?
— Jesse Benn (@JesseBenn) June 14, 2017
Addendum: HuffPost continues to publicly enable and legitimize Benn: When Benn posted the above Tweets, the only affiliation he listed on his Twitter page was HuffPost. Yet as of June 24, 2018, HuffPost still lists Benn as one of its writers — a stark contrast to how it removed a journalist’s archive, and fired him, after he refused to comply with its blackout on physicians’ growing concerns over Hillary Clinton’s evident, serious medical problems, in the summery and fall of 2016.
EXAMPLE 3: “Trump supporters deserve to die more than I do. The human species will be better off without them. These are the people who deserve to have their towns annihilated. They’re the ones who would have brought it on themselves.”
This quote is found in:
Trump Supporters Deserve To Die More Than I Do, by Chris Cali, Huffington Post
As the Free Beacon also pointed out, HuffPost has been publishing Cali’s hate-filled editorials since 2014. His archive contains the following pieces — which HuffPost also published on its front page:
If You Don’t Vote Democrat This November, Then Fuck You
2015: The Year We Stopped Putting Up With Your Shit
EXAMPLE 4: “Trump and everyone assisting in his agenda [must be brought up] on charges of treason. They must be convicted (there is little room to doubt their guilt). And then — upon receiving guilty verdicts — they must all be executed.”
This quote is found in:
Impeachment Is No Longer Enough; Donald Trump Must Face Justice, by Jason Fuller, Huffington Post, June 11, 2017.
And what qualifies the writer, Jason Fuller, to make such sweeping, incitement-based legal judgments?
By his own admission, per his biography at HuffPost, his entire body of qualifications are:
“I live in a small American town and work a low-wage job”
In contrast, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, a HuffPost blogger, lifelong Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, and one of America’s most respected legal scholars, asserted on CNN on May 18, 2017 — nearly a month before HuffPost published Fuller’s screed — that not only are the charges being brought against Trump illegitimate, the frenzy that has been built up around them reminded him of “Stalinist secret police tactics”:
‘What Is the Crime?!’ Dershowitz Goes on Wild Rant, Says Mueller’s Powers Limited, by Justin Baragona, MediaIte, May 18, 2017. Excerpt:
“Let’s assume that’s true,” he exclaimed. “Show me the criminal statute. I still sit here as a civil libertarian. I don’t want us ever to become what Stalinist Russia became when Stalin was saying, show me the man I’ll find you the crime. What is the crime?!”
Curiously, HuffPost featured nothing about this interview, or any of the other ones that Dershowitz or other legal scholars provided, that collapse the narrative that anything Trump did falls under U.S. criminal statutes. A June 25, 2018 search at HuffPost using the string “Dershowitz show me the criminal statute. I still sit here as a civil libertarian” returned zero results:
Bottom line: HuffPost plucked a completely unqualified person out of its ranks of supporters to write a murderous, violence-inciting legal analysis regarding the President of the United States — while ignoring actual legal scholars, such as Alan Dershowitz. Aside from the obvious, the irony here is that in its advertising pitch to mainstream corporations, HuffPost’s parent company, “OATH,” tells them that its function is to enable readers to “Know what’s real”:
Addendum: HuffPost eventually removed Fuller’s incitement editorial — but continues to publicly enable and legitimize him: On June 15, 2017, four days after it published his murderous incitement editorial, HuffPost removed it, after a public outcry. Yet as of June 25, 2018, HuffPost is still publishing Fuller’s screeds:
Ignoring threats and attacks on Republicans, that HuffPost would have given top publicity to, if it were against Democrats who are inciting this hate
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