“To every action (force) there is an equal and opposite reaction (force)”
(Newton's Third Law)
I do not flatter myself even for a second about my journalistic popularity. But hundreds of questions addressed to me in letters and on Facebook force me to express my opinion on the current events in the USA. I mean not only hysteria with the coronavirus pandemic which I consider to be the greatest, carefully thought out and brilliantly organized scam, but also the ongoing “protests”, riots and pogroms in a number of US cities.
There is no need to repeat the questions asked in the letters. During the last few weeks similar questions, in one way or another, have arisen in the mind of every potential reader of this article. But, before I express my own opinion on the current events, please allow me to share here some of my personal not so recent memories.
Remember an American woman associated with the organization of Black Panthers - Angela Davis? I remember her vividly! In my native Baku, dozens of rallies were held under the banner: “Freedom to Angela Davis!” I swear that 99% of the protesters had no idea nor did care who she really was, or why and from what she suddenly needed to gain her freedom. Simply put, for participating in a protest rally they got one workday off or additional vacation day. According to her portraits on printed posters, it was clear that she was, so to say as politically correct as possible, not of a white race. Later, such saying became popular in Baku: "Ara, I am free as Angela Davis!"… when you wanted to be left alone.
As a member of the Baku Communist Party Youth Organization (Komsomol) Regional Committee, I was an active organizer of these and other similar rallies. During my tenure I participated in organizing at least hundreds of such "spontaneous" rallies of protests, solidarity meetings and other "spontaneous grass roots" expressions of public opinion. Therefore, I can firmly state that there are no such thing as spontaneous mass rallies! Only mob riots, street fights, murders and robberies can be spontaneous! Everything else requires preparation, organization and leadership. And there must be professional provocateurs mixed within the protesting crowd.
Neither I nor my children ever thought that twice in our life time we would witness mass pogroms, atrocities of the brutal crowd, murders of old men and women, and police curfews. Alas, I had to... For the first time - in Baku, during the provoked Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, and now - in the United States of America!
I remember the raging crowds, I remember how the mob forced men (pardon, you don’t erase words from a song...) on the street to take off their pants and demonstrate if circumcised (the Armenians did not circumcise boys...), and much more that is impossible to recall here without giving us nightmares.
During the riots the regular Soviet Army units stood by near Baku and waited for the Central Command to give an order to end that nightmare. The order was given only a few days later ... (Gorbachev explained such a delay by the fact “that he didn’t know what was happening there, and that the authorities couldn’t get through to him...”) And as soon as tanks and paratroopers entered the streets of the city, all those crowds instantly scattered and hid in burrows. Despite that there was no Internet and no mobile phones with cameras at that time, many rioting murderous bastards had been found... with swift the wartime justice to follow… there was neither time nor any desire for the peacetime courts... And then, once Heydar Aliyev, RIP, returned to Baku, he restored the Law and Order in my beloved city!
It’s all for now. This is where the memories end, and I turn to specific answers to specific questions.
So, for starters, let’s look at the general situation developed in a number of democratic states and democratic cities (that is, those in which Democrats rule) in the United States. Dozens of U.S. cities have been engulfed by mass protests accompanied by riots and clashes with the police over the Floyd's death. In many states they grew into riots with pogroms, robberies, shootings, arson… and demolished monuments of major political and military historical figures of the Confederacy.
Even in London there was an attempt to demolish the famous Churchill monument. He was supposedly racist and generally smoked cigars while slaves grew tobacco for those cigars. Well, this is just to mention…
Floyd himself, who has been strangled by a policeman and whose death had ignited and served as an excuse for riots, was a former convict with a jail term, a small time drug addict, a small time crook and robber ... So what? This was not his fault but the fault of those who enslaved his ancestors, and he was prejudiced and prosecuted for his color. Well, so Floyd had to poke a gun in the stomach of a pregnant woman during the robbery… but he was not the culprit of her pregnancy. For this, in the worst case, you could once again be sent to prison, but not strangled! Strangled for over eight minutes! Moreover, during the strangulation he quite clearly said a few times that he could not breathe!
(As it happened so that four times in my lifetime I was a direct witness to how a person was strangled (and had been strangled!). It never lasted for more than 3-4 minutes, and certainly a person whose throat had been squeezed and crashed, sorry for the details, not only could not utter a single word, but also was not able to grasp a single breath...)
It was only natural that the broad masses of populace were outraged by the actions of the police officers and by the police lawlessness, in general… and so with the strong support and encouragement of the democratic leaders they flooded the streets of the cities to protest, smash windows and rob businesses and others who do not poke pistols in the stomachs of pregnant women. The others were forced to kneel, forced to kiss rioters’ shoes for refusing to kneel, for speaking out against looting, for condemning the burning and destruction of our society. Forced to kneel down to apologize for the crimes they did not commit!
And why not to kneel as a sign of repentance… if Nancy Pelosi herself kneeled down commemorating the untimely death of a convict, drug addict, and robber… the one who became a symbol of protests and was buried in a gilded coffin after a five-day funeral events and processions in the cities of America?
Answering the next question, I will say that over many years everything led to this while systematically being prepared and engrained into consciousness. The traditional family was being destroyed (same-sex marriages and, de facto, propaganda of sexual perversions - remember the “Pride Parades” and the former New York Mayor Bloomberg who accepted the title of “Honorary Lesbian”). School education was also being destroyed and primitized… the programs have been simplified step by step so that those who are not able to master the standard school curriculum "do not feel disadvantaged" in order not to hurt their feelings. As a result, a huge percentage of current graduates of standard public schools are just elementary illiterate.
All of these supported by the democrats movements, “me-too”, antifa, sex minorities, etc., systematically have been leading to the stratification of our society, to the reverse racism, to the suppression of freedom of speech and, ultimately, to what we see today in America.
Brainwashing of the younger generation in public schools and most colleges in the USA by liberal professors-democrats leads to open conflicts not only in our society but also within families. The 17-year-old daughter of my friends, a highly educated Jewish family, recently called her parents racists because they did not express enthusiasm for interracial and same-sex marriages.
How will it all end? Quite as expected, I must say! Remember Ilf and Petrov? Remember the “Crow's Slum” which could not help itself but got burned out? So it is how it is now! The accumulated over time (created and cultivated!) contradictions within the society could not, at the slightest provocation, not to pour into what they today have poured out… widespread mob violence.
But! In the hands of the US population there are more than 300 million (!!!) units of various firearms which, fortunately, have not yet been put into action. I think that everything is ahead of us. May God make me mistaken!!
May God get someone to remind our President the words of I. Krylov: “Do not waste your speeches in vain where you need to exercise your power!”
And, in conclusion, I would like to quote here a paragraph from one of the posts sent to me on Facebook:
“... The possession of weapons has never seemed too attractive to me. But, if they come to my house to kill and rob me, I will shoot them dead. If you are an ordinary person, you cannot allow yourself to be silent now. You must speak out in this crisis. I cannot be silent, and you must not either. ”
United States will recover from the beatings. Plywood will be removed. It will heal under it.
Only I will not forget anything.
"None. To nobody. Not equal. Never."
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