Homegrown terrorism--BLM and Black Panthers. What, not ISIS?

Pulling together any and all fringe groups nursing a complaint against police, the protests were meant to show solidarity with BlackLivesMatter. As media directed full attention on major breaking news overseas, lack of coverage for Friday's events may have influenced some flaring tempers as the poorly attended marches fizzled. A few protests were reconvened and resumed on Saturday, one of which took place in Baton Rouge. Pandering from the White House toward the BLM contingent of angry, and evidently otherwise unoccupied, individuals has done nothing to abate the growing animosity toward law enforcement. The president's remarks at the memorial last week honoring the five Dallas officers, initially praised law enforcement but quickly turned into a gun control rant, demeaning their service by the time he finished. Obama's continual undermining of law enforcement, in order to appeal to a race-based ethos that embellishes discrimination, has encouraged anger among the BLM crowd. From there, it doesn't take much to trigger violence, which is what occurred Sunday morning, July 17, 2016. A masked gunman, later identified as a 29-year-old black man from Missouri, set himself on a shooting spree near police headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing three police officers and wounding three others. The president quickly acknowledged the crime beginning with these words: "attacks on police are attacks on all of us." If only he meant it.

This is not an isolated incident. It is part of a developing pattern of choosing to lionize individuals who resist law enforcement and suffer subsequent harm or death, creating a false narrative of oppression. Organizations promoting misinformation and complete falsehoods instigate public panic that can be manipulated to their own power-hungry ends. BlackLivesMatter, Black Panthers and any other race-oriented "action" group splinter their communities by using their own brand of terror. Murder sprees by individuals loosely affiliated with ISIS--Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, Orlando, Nice--are inarguably tagged with the terror label. But the rise in domestic plots of confrontation, riots and ambushing law enforcement is not a blacklash against police violence, it is a new tide of terror initiated by race-baiting provocateurs... and the ringleaders are invited to White House confabs. Today's 'civil rights' activists such as 'Reverends' Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't appear to have any affiliation with Christian theology. They are the worst kind of racists that, were they white, would be vilified as the epitome of evil Christianity. Too many in the grievance industry (aptly named for its extortion methods) promote illegitimate claims of injustice with violent language. Long ago, they replaced Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.'s passive resistance methods of advocating for a worthy cause with this vile incitement. The new concept of community organizing is the old concept of terror. The new Black Panthers are the old Black Panthers pointing guns and shooting to kill whites and law enforcement in a skewed justification for black racism, or reverse racism of any stripe or color. The new wave of domestic terrorism is being wrought by fomenting race wars as opposed to jihad. Both are splintering American society for the purpose of collapsing it as an 'unfair' system.¹ Ironically, the American system of liberty is the most forward thinking and equitable system of government ever to be established.

As no one in the BLM, illegal immigration, LGBT or other grievance movements will admit, I'll do it for you... There is no great black hope any more than there was ever a great white hope. The only hope is in that of Christ, where all are equal in the eyes of God--equal to choose whether to believe and be blessed by His Grace; or choose to reject His gift which translates into a futile struggle with feeling overwhelmed by the world and blaming it on others.

1. A. Dru Kristenev, 2012. OWS... the Fall of Jerusalem All Over Again, Pp. 79-83. Scripture Led Politics ...Mutual Exclusivity Be Damned. ChangingWind
2. A. Dru Kristenev, 2015. The Reichstag is burning, Pp. 134-136. Pay Attention!! ...your life, family and nation depend on it. ChangingWind.