It is crystal clear and utterly foreseeable that, unless the civilian authorities and the police they command do their jobs–restore order and protect potential victims, outlaw and prevent violent thugs running around with masks on to conceal their identities, unless these attacks are stopped and stopped cold, unless those ANTIFA or other violent thugs carrying out these attacks are identified, arrested, tried, and convicted, and an end put to this progression of increasingly violent attacks–someone is going to get killed, and it looks like sooner rather than later.

It seems to me that he should still be in the hospital and under constant monitoring and care, not out giving interviews,

It looks like he has really been damaged, I hope not permanently.

Those who attacked him–from the video and what Ngo has said, hitting him in the head with armored fists and objects, several attempts to kick at his knees to try to break them, and the caustic “milk shaking” only some of the attacks, and there were apparently others.

His attackers were really trying to seriously injure if not permanently cripple him, and they may have succeeded.

His attackers need to be identified, arrested, and charged with attempted maiming, attempt to inflict grave bodily harm, or some such–crimes requiring those found guilty to serve substantial jail time.

The usual case of tyrannies is to pick one disruptive group and annihilate it (or close enough) so that others will decide to cease disruption. They might have enough subversives in the above to manage that, since they also have a complicit media to obscure the “protection” actions.

It was the standard modus operandi for tribes, countries, & warlords up through the Treaty of Westphalia at the earliest, and has never really been in abeyance.
Look at Hitler’s reprisals against Resistance groups (or even unorganized resisters) and their neighbors (not even supporters), the Soviets during the “unification” period (and arguable through today), and the Vietcong disciplining villages North & South, for recent examples.

The United States (post Frontier) have been more reluctant to make examples for the encouragement of others (in this case, annihilating Antifa & its ilk, which arguably includes a lot of people not in the streets wearing masks), and only some of them will act governmentally to end the violence of the Left — while some of the States actively support it, and most are bitterly divided.

Even the States you might expect to crack down on the hoodlums may not make the grade.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/austin-goes-from-harmlessly-weird-to-dangerously-stupid-by-legalizing-camping-on-city-streets/

“The police Obey Authority.”

That’s true. The police rely upon civilian authority to follow the rule of law. When civilian authority refuses to follow the rule of law, then if the police obey authority, they become supporters of tyranny.

The only thing preventing the cops from arresting Ngo’s attackers was their fear of antagonizing Portland’s civilian authorities. In allowing that fear to dominate, they became complicit in that attack, and open to charges of dereliction of duty.

“As I described, GB, the conversion of good to evil and evil to good is already happening. It’s unavoidable so long as you “fight” but do not “kill” the threat.”

I must have missed where you described examples of “evil to good”… could you do so again or link to it?

“Fighting an enemy allows them to convert you”

That’s only true of those who fight absent principles. No way are those who fight for the individual’s right to liberty going to convert to collectivism.

Those on the right who have refrained from “killing” the threat and limited themselves to fighting the threat have done so in hopes that the union can be saved. Those with eyes to see are aware that the left is pushing America to the point where open conflict erupts. When that does, it will not end well for the Left.

As Roy points out;

“Unfortunately, the Portland greater metropolitan area makes up more than half of the population of the state…”

and Art Deco points out;

“The tract development in Multnomah, Clackemas, and Washington Counties had a population of about 1.4 million in 2010, 36% of the state’s.”

Those urban and suburban areas have to import all or nearly all of their water, food, medicines, electrical service and transportation fuels. Disrupting those supplies is easily done. Nor do you need armor to accomplish that disruption. Nor does the left have enough police, deep state operatives and military units to protect those factors from disruption.

It is because that disruption would kill the innocent as well as the Marxist enemy that we are reluctant in the extreme to go from fighting to killing.

When the Left presents us with a choice of killing to retain liberty or accepting enslavement/death… then I for one won’t have a problem with putting down the Left’s rabid dogs. And the death of innocents will be upon their heads, not ours.

By Any Means Necessary: Left-Wing Violence Won’t Stop with Andy Ngo
BY RICHARD FERNANDEZ JUNE 30, 2019

If You Don’t Stand Up for Andy Ngo, You Could Be Next
BY JIM TREACHER JULY 1, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/trending/if-you-dont-stand-up-for-andy-ngo-you-could-be-next/

Last week, James Fields got life in prison for the 2017 murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville. As far as I’m concerned, he got off light. Considering he committed his crime in a death-penalty state, he should consider himself lucky that he gets to live out the rest of his life on the taxpayer’s dime. I would’ve sentenced him to the needle, but I guess that’s because I’m a fascist.

I don’t know a lot about Heyer’s political views, but I know she didn’t deserve to be hurt or killed for them. Most Americans would agree, or at least I hope so. But a lot of the same people who were rightly outraged by Heyer’s murder are now celebrating another act of political violence.

This weekend there was yet another Antifa protest in Portland, against whoever those idiots think they’re protesting against, and there was yet more violence. This time the victim was journalist Andy Ngo.
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What you just saw was a pack of privileged white dudes in masks beating up a smaller guy who’s a minority (Ngo is Vietnamese-American) and a member of the LGBTQ community (he’s gay). These cowards punched him and threw things at him in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, because they knew the cops wouldn’t stop them. It might as well be Alabama in the ’50s. The only difference between Antifa and the Klan is fashion.
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But it didn’t stop him from recording what was happening. It didn’t make him do what they wanted. So they escalated. It’s broken windows theory: If you allow people to push the boundaries of acceptable behavior, they’re not going to stop with relatively minor offenses. If they see that they can get away with something small, they’ll try to get away with something bigger. Lawlessness encourages greater lawlessness.

And on top of the attack itself, now Ngo is dealing with all the alleged “journalists” who are mocking and/or dismissing it. They hate Ngo because he wrote some stories they didn’t like, or he expressed some opinions they think are bad. They say he should’ve known that Antifa, who are considered the good guys by lefty journos,* are feral savages and would turn on him. They say the gay, 5’5″ Asian guy tricked those black-clad heroes into putting him in the hospital because he wanted attention. Any excuse will do for these Democratic Party operatives with press passes.
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Jim Acosta gets a microphone taken away by a female White House aide, and they make a martyr of him. Andy Ngo gets beaten up by a mob of leftists, and they shrug. It all depends on how useful you are to the #Resistance. You will say the things you’re supposed to say, or you’re on your own.
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Political violence is wrong, whether it’s committed by Antifa, or the Proud Boys, or the Daughters of the American Revolution, or whoever loses their minds next. As Richard Fernandez notes, this isn’t going to stop with Andy Ngo. It’s only going to escalate. Once you normalize milkshaking, and spitting on people in restaurants, and standing outside a guy’s house with a bullhorn because he said something on TV that hurt your feelings, that’s not going to be enough anymore. Anyone who refuses to submit, refuses to do what he’s told, will be fair game.

And they wonder why people want guns.

He includes a link to a video by Tom Elliott:
Flashback montage: The media’s history supporting #Antifa, an anti-free press, domestic terror group #AndyNgo

https://pjmedia.com/trending/anti-extremism-expert-loses-jobs-twitter-account-after-antifa-smears/

Anti-extremism researcher Eoin Lenihan struck a nerve when he published the results of a study showing the links between liberal news outlets and the violent thugs who organize under the name “antifa.” After Lenihan published his report, antifa activists contacted his employers to get him fired and reported him on Twitter, succeeding in shutting down his Twitter account. A reporter with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has disputed part of Lenihan’s story, as noted in an update below.

Lenihan’s story seems all the more important after Rose City Antifa in Portland beat up Quillette editor Andy Ngo, using milkshakes with quick-dry cement and landing him in the hospital with brain bleed. The anti-extremism researcher told PJ Media, “I am not surprised that Andy has been brutally attacked.” He noted that Rose City Antifa belongs “to the Torch Antifa collective which is a network of Militant Antifa collectives throughout the USA. This means that Rose City Antifa prioritise the use of violence as their primary means of defeating those they deem to be fascist.”
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“…The attack on Ngo “was entirely premeditated and those (many!) journalists downplaying and ridiculing Andy — many of whom were found to have concerning links to Antifa in our recent research — are cheerleaders for Antifa violence.”

“The most disturbing Tweet — and that is saying something — that I saw was a tweet from SPLC contributor David Neiwert who stated that Andy Ngo ‘invited’ the assault, accusing him of writing an article that was turned into a ‘kill list’ of journalists,” Lenihan noted. “Firstly, it was my article, not Andy’s. And secondly, despite unproven claims of an Atomwaffen ‘kill list’ (nobody is willing to produce the video), in the month since the article was published only one journalist has been beaten — Andy. But facts do not matter to Antifa’s cheerleaders in the media.”

The two other severly injured men, beaten at a different location, were not journalists. As if that really mattered.

Lenihan posted the results of his study on Twitter on May 15, and RedState, PJ Media, and Quillette picked up the story a few days later. The anti-extremism researcher appeared on Al Jazeera to speak about the Christchurch Call to Action, an international response to the white supremacist shootings targeting mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The producer said she was proud of his segment.

Yet Al Jazeera removed the video from YouTube after The Huffington Post’s Luke O’Brien alleged that Lenihan was himself on the far right. Michael Hayden, a reporter at the SPLC, tweeted at Al Jazeera, accusing Lenihan of running an account whose “primary shtick is to mock feminists and immigrants.”

Hayden was referring to ProgDadTV, a political satire account Lenihan ran from November 2017 to August 2018 and occasionally thereafter
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“…Hayden and O’Brien “contacted an employer and smeared my reputation to poison the well against me, and did so while relying heavily on sources associated with—you guessed it—Antifa,” Lenihan noted. Hayden disputes this claim, as noted in the update below.

In a far more insidious effort, antifa-connected activists have attempted to erase Lenihan’s credentials as an anti-extremism researcher. Activists first contacted his employers to smear his name, then claimed that the employers and would-be employers never offered him jobs in the first place.

Right Wing Watch researcher Jared Holt wrote an article for the Columbia Journalism Review, claiming that Lenihan is not an anti-extremism researcher and has “no affiliation with any previously known organization that researches extremism.” The researcher has effectively rebutted these claims, and he sent PJ Media screenshots of emails demonstrating his relationship with many anti-extremism organizations.

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Lenihan was scheduled to speak at the Terrorism and Social Media Conference in Swansea, Wales last week but he was disinvited after a pressure campaign.

He has a few other job opportunities that remain open and an academic paper “under review” at the journal Social Networks. The journal’s editor has been harassed, but the paper is still being considered.

The antifa pressure campaign has also cost Lenihan his Twitter account. As previously noted, the ProgDad account was permanently suspended for “targeted harassment” of the white supremacist @LucidHurricaneX. “He had been harassing me for a while and I made a mocking tweet which got me banned. The tweet was very harmless so he must have gamed the report system and claimed that it was homophobic or trans bullying or something like that as it’s not bannable on its own,” the researcher told PJ Media.
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The violence of antifa was on full display this past weekend with the attack against Andy Ngo, but activists have also engaged in smear campaigns to get their critics fired, to erase their critics’ credentials, and to get their critics silenced on social media. Eoin Lenihan will not be the last.

Update:

Michael Hayden, the SPLC reporter, reached out to PJ Media with a statement after publication.

“I never tried to get this Eoin Lenihan person fired because I didn’t know what his job was or if he even had one,” Hayden told PJ Media. “I only knew him as ‘ProgDad’ until he appeared under his real name
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He also gave PJ Media a statement he had sent to The Post-Millennial after it published Lenihan’s story:
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And yet in WWII British tankers persisted wearing berets instead of helmets. How dashing of them (and unnecessarily dead). And then in the Korean war there were stories of Chinese padded clothing being effective armor, against M1 carbine maybe, against 30-06 or .303, not so much. Sorry, but ballistic nylon, Kevlar, Spectra, with or without ceramic plates and such have long past silk in effectiveness IIRC.

Kate on July 2, 2019 at 8:02 am said:
Ann, David French is right, for once.

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David may be on the verge of repudiating Frenchism.

This is also a good report, by Jim Geraghty, which excerpts an older post by Kevin Williamson back when Klantifa (I like it!) started up in Portland:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/antifa-the-fascist-anti-fascists/

“The Oregonian chose the headline, “Portland mayor, police come under fire after right-wing writer attacked at protest” — a classic of the “conservatives pounce” genre. But the story they’re reporting is “gang of masked assailants beat man in park as police watch.” Or perhaps that sort of thing is starting to happen so often in Portland that it no longer qualifies as news.“

http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.19195.html

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Grades_of_Fabric

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_vest
Silk appears in a couple of different eras, but I was surprised to learn this:

“The British army medical services calculated towards the end of the War, that three quarters of all battle injuries could have been prevented if an effective armor had been issued.”