Now, let’s look at the main action, a story packed with delicious irony. On Wednesday, the New York Post ran what might be the most optimistic story of the year, headlined, “
61 ‘anarchists’ indicted by Georgia AG for targeting Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ training facility.”
Earlier this year, a group of anarchic Antifa “protestors,” an apparently loose club of militant anti-police anarchists, eco-activists and community organizers, operating under the banner “Defend the Atlanta Forest,” gathered in the early morning hours to attack a partly-built Atlanta police training facility, by sabotaging construction equipment, throwing Molotov cocktails, and firing fireworks mortars at its front gate in a skirmish with surprised officers.
They also setup heinous booby traps like foot destroyers hidden under bushes in a nearby public park:
They committed more violent acts of public nuisance, including setting some cop cars on fire, and breaking into 191 Peachtree Tower (where the Atlanta Police Foundation is located). A total of 225 “overt acts” were cited in the indictment’s timeline of lawlessness — starting with two defendants throwing objects and a Molotov cocktail at the Georgia State Patrol headquarters on July 5, 2020 and ending with incidents that occurred two weeks ago.
According to his announcement, Georgia’s Attorney Republican General Chris Carr took the case before a Fulton County grand jury on August 29th. Ironically, Fulton County is the same county where local DA Fani Willis charged President Trump and all his co-defendants. Even more ironically, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it was
the same grand jury; the same people, that is, hearing various cases sequentially.
All 61 defendants were charged with RICO, the same as Trump and his co-defendants. Five ringleaders were charged with domestic terrorism, money laundering, and arson. Three defendants who organized a bail fund, last names Kautz, Maclean and Patterson, were executives with the woke nonprofit ‘Network for Strong Communities,’ which funded Defend the Atlanta Forest, and were arrested back in May this year. All three now face one count of RICO and 15 counts of money laundering in the new indictment.
Here’s the video of DA Carr’s entire announcement (12 minutes).
Pundits are contrasting the massive indictment of 61 anarchists and allies to the lack of punishment for the rioters involved in the mostly-peaceful Summer of Floyd. The Floyd hoodlums got off because the public largely sympathized with the criminals over the police. But now, in 2023, an Atlanta grand jury quickly indicted the hoodlums attacking police facilities.
Times change.
Some social media influencers are celebrating what they view as a conservative response to the trumped-up Trump cases.
Turnabout is fair play! While understandable, I think that greatly misses the point. The 61 Atlanta indictees are
real criminals who committed violent crimes. It’s not like the made-up Trump prosecutions
at all.
The real story is it shows some conservative DA’s are starting to bring justice to the left’s brownshirt mafia. Unlike Minneapolis police, Georgia police see the system working correctly to protect them in doing their difficult, dangerous jobs.
Quite rationally, Atlanta doesn’t want to lose half its police force the way Minneapolis did.
America’s Mayor Rudi Giuliani famously cured New York City’s out-of-control crime problem using a “broken windows” policy: they prosecuted even the smallest crimes (like breaking a window). Those small-crime prosecutions took joyriding criminals off the street before they ever got to the point of carjacking mothers in their own driveways.
The Atlanta indictment, which under RICO could lead to tracing the money right up the woke funding chain and ultimately prosecuting much bigger fish, is a sign that civilization’s immune system is starting to recover from its pandemic auto-immune disease.
We will watch the case’s progress with great interest.
Lifelong dem instantly red-pilled, the hard way; GA indictment of 61 thugs raises hopes; Gaetz to force impeachment vote; CNN poll pans President Peters; and Gov. DeSantis's fabulous press conference.
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