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How would you feel if a business you worked your whole life to own was completely destroyed in the course of an hour? How would you feel to watch the nightly news and see your city in flames, destruction and violence flooding the street? Many people had this experience over the summer, when Black Lives Matter protests filled the streets of cities all over the country. Black Lives Matter is a group that is not as peaceful as they may claim. The activities of the Black Lives Matter organization are responsible for as much, if not more, violence as those who they are protesting against. The reason people are not educated on the true mission and actions of Black Lives Matter is because they are given protection by prominent liberal politicians and the media.

The activities of the Black Lives Matter organization are responsible for as much, if not more, violence as those who they are protesting against. In the article “Black Lives Matter: Behind the Facade”, the author Alex Newman details some of the instances of violence. In St. Louis, Missouri, "a 24-year-old involved in the chaos has been charged with murder for shooting and killing retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, a black man who was helping to defend his community" (Newman), as well as a "black power" activist who "shot 12 police officers, killing five, after a BLM rally" (Newman). These protests are not only violent towards police officers. Civilians have fallen victim as well. In Provo, Utah, BLM activist Jesse Taggart began shooting at passers-by. "[Taggart] was charged with attempted aggravated murder, aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, rioting, and more" (Newman). A young mother named Jessica Doty Whitaker responded "All Lives Matter" to the protestors, and "[BLM protestors] shot her in the head and killed her. BLM activists then taunted her family on social media" (Newman). BLM activists also use violent threats in their rhetoric. “Bullies, Looters, Mobs: The Anti-American Essence of BLM” by Aaron Briley details some of these threats. BLM protestors at a restaurant "assaulted patrons... and screamed in their faces '[expletive] white people!'" (Briley). Hank Newsome, the head of BLM Greater New York even said, "If this system doesn't give us what we want, we will burn it down and replace it" (Briley). Imagine if Jessica Doty Whitaker had been your mother. She was somebody’s mother, whose child will never get to see her again, simply because she refused to comply with protestors demands. To make matters worse, they taunted her grieving family online afterwards. David Dorn did not do anything, in fact he himself was black, but because he was seen as an enemy, he was killed. What if your mom or dad had been walking down the street in Provo, Utah when Jessie Taggart decided to start shooting at random people? These are realities for some people, because of BLM protests. The constitution guarantees your right to protest peacefully, but not violently. Nobody has any right to take another's life simply for disagreeing with you. Jessica Doty Whitaker, David Dorn, five police officers and passers-by. And these are only a few instances I have outlined. Nothing about murder is peaceful. If Black Lives Matter truly cared about black lives, why would they shoot a black police officer? Why would they engage in the same acts the people they are protesting against are allegedly partaking in?

The organization Black Lives Matter is built on conflicting beliefs. According to the article “To Black Lives Matter, No Lives Matter” by Tim White, two of the founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, are "trained Marxists" and "embrace a specific ideological frame" (White). They said so themselves. Marxism is "...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 abilities and needs" according to the Oxford Dictionary. They have also admitted that their inspiration for the organization was Assata Shakur, who was convicted of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper. However, their mission statement on their website says, "By combating and countering acts of violence... we are winning immediate improvements of our lives." How can you say you combat and counter acts of violence, when you embrace a violent political structure, and say your inspiration for your organization is someone who was convicted of murder? There is a major contradiction between their mission statement and their actions. Two wrongs don't make a right is something we were told as kids. How does using violence to combat acts of violence you are protesting against help your cause?

Prominent liberal politicians and prominent media outlets have given protection and have even condoned this behavior exhibited by Black Lives Matter. Massachusetts' own Rep. Ayanna Pressley has been quoted as saying "There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives" (Tiernan). Another article published in Fox News by Ronn Blitzer discusses how a bail fund backed by now Vice President Kamala Harris bailed out a rioter who was arrested twice and was then charged again. "According to the Hennepin County Attorney's office, Thomas Moseley, 29, had been arrested and released in cases involving allegations that include damaging a police precinct in August and rioting in December. He was arrested again on Jan. 27, just 22 days after his latest release" (Blitzer). In addition, an article by Joseph Wolfsohn from Fox News details a headline that was run by CNN during BLM protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin saying "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shootings" (Wolfsohn), while cars and dumpsters are on fire behind the reporter. What kind of message does it send when our elected officials are condoning this violent behavior? We have politicians saying there needs to be violence and "unrest" in our streets, which we know is leading to deaths and destruction of private property. And a network who boasts that more people get their news from them than anyone else saying this kind of behavior is "mostly peaceful." Our own vice president, the second highest official in the country, is backing a bail fund that bails out these violent people from jail, and bailing them out again after they repeat the same offense.

Black Lives Matter does not truly care about black lives. Black Lives Matter commits acts of violence, equivalent and even greater than those they protest against. The founders say one thing, while their mission statement says another that directly contradicts their statements and beliefs. The violent actions and beliefs are embraced and condoned by liberal politicians, such as the Vice President, and the media, specifically CNN, who boasts in their intro that more people get their news from them than any other network. The condoning and supporting of these actions by our elected officials and our news sources are scary, and quite frankly dangerous. These are people who represent us, and who some younger kids look up to as role models, especially the Vice President, who is the first female to hold the position, and the first black and Indian American to hold the office as well. If we don't come together as a country and condone these acts of violence, they will continue to happen and maybe escalate. Peaceful protests are what makes America great, countries like China and North Korea don't allow their citizens to protest, and we need to re-instill the fact that peaceful protests are ok, but violent ones are not. These protests are taking our loved ones and our small businesses, which are already struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot sit back and allow violence to fill our streets. I fully support peaceful protests, as that is one of the principles the country was built on, but do not kill our family members and destroy our businesses in the process.

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12/24

So as I’m sure some of you may know, the congress passed a stimulus bill a couple of days ago that would distribute $600 checks to Americans. That’s half of what it was last time, but I’ll get to that in a minute. For half a year, democrats and republicans have been negotiating a second bill, and this is what they come up with. I’m going to break down the parts of the bill I have problems with, so get ready.

Support for Climate Measures

So this part includes new legislation to regulate hydrofluorocarbons, and allocates $35 BILLION to fund wind, solar and clean energy products. There are people who can’t pay their heat bills, their electricity bills, their mortgage, and can’t even afford to put food on the tables at the end of the day, but we can allocate $35 billion to climate projects? To me, this is wrong. I understand climate change should be addressed and a solution should be discussed, but don’t take money away from taxpayers who need it now more than ever. We are in the middle of a public health crisis, and people need help. You were elected to represent the people, so do your job properly.

State and Local Aid Funding

In the first package passed in March, $339 billion was allocated for state and local governments. How much is allocated this time around? None. The money that was allocated to state and local governments is gone. Why? Ask the politicians on Capitol Hill why there isn’t any money for that, but there's $35 Billion for Climate Measures. Shouldn’t we be focused more on our citizens and protecting them in a pandemic? Climate Change is an issue, but not one that’s going to drive us into the ground tomorrow.

Foreign Aid Expenditures

The bill contains the following figures for foreign aid: $85.5 million to Cambodia, $134 million to Burma, $1.3 billion for Egypt, $25 million for “democracy and gender programs” in Pakistan, $505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, $40 million to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and $1 billion to museums and galleries in the Capitol. This money going to other countries, and they can only give us $600 checks? The president is right, we should be getting $2,000 checks. Cut all of this bullcrap “foreign aid” out of the bill, and we can afford that, and probably money for the state and local governments too. I seem to remember the dems wanting lots of funding for the Kennedy Center last time too. Why is the Kennedy Center so important? I wonder if there’s something going on there no one knows about. 

This bill, 5,593 pages long, was presented to lawmakers on December 22, and voted on several hours later on the same day. There’s no possible way they were able to read the entire thing before voting. Politicians work for us, we don’t work for them. Thousands of years ago, our founding fathers told the king of England to kiss their asses, and we need to do the same. They work for us, and we’ve allowed them to run free. It’s time to rein them back in.

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