{"id":1582948,"date":"2022-08-01T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582948"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:32:59","slug":"far-left-violence-dominates-another-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-violence-dominates-another-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left Violence Dominates Another Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-left-violence-dominates-another-summer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Democrats continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/jan-hearing-key-takeaways-committee-warns-democracy-danger\/story?id=85302189\">say<\/a> that \u201cdemocracy is in danger\u201d if voters don\u2019t give liberals the majority in November, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-violence\">violence<\/a> by the left has defined the summer politically so far, conservative observers have told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats continue to use the Jan. 6 Committee hearings over the summer to make a special case that somehow conservatives pose a danger to the country, the violence from the left has been ongoing, one victim told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The issues affronting progressives are numerous, including the reversal of Roe v. Wade, non-action on a climate change scheme, and the lack of momentum of progressive policies under President Joe Biden, which stand out as sources of anger and mounting frustration for leftist activists.<\/p>\n<p>In June, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pro-life\">pro-life<\/a> pregnancy center in Buffalo, New York, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/destruction-and-vandalism-by-pro-abortion-extremists-sweeps-america_4545276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burned out<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/destruction-and-vandalism-by-pro-abortion-extremists-sweeps-america_4545276.html\">,<\/a> allegedly by the radical leftwing, pro-abortion, militant group Jane\u2019s Revenge, said the health pregnancy center called CompassCare, which helps women keep their babies rather than abort them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually saw the type of [violent] Jane\u2019s Revenge activity happening around our Buffalo location that they were fomenting with their followers\u201d prior to the firebombing of the clinic Rev. James Harden, CEO of CompassCare, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we reported it to local law enforcement as well as the FBI two weeks in advance of the firebombing,\u201d added Harden, who said Molotov cocktails were used to set the blaze to the CompassCare clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Harden blames local and national progressive politicians for the violence, calling measures that the state of New York have taken under Democratic Gov. Kathleen Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James to investigate crisis pregnancy centers like CompassCare as \u201cessentially joining Jane\u2019s Revenge in attacking pro-life pregnancy centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4560602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4560602\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/27\/ezgif.com-gif-maker-1200x800-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Longmont arson\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript> A message written on the wall of a pro-choice pregnancy resource center that was set on fire in Longmont, Colorado, on June 25, 2022. (Longmont Police Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Jane\u2019s Revenge<\/h2>\n<p>The Jane\u2019s group said that they were also responsible for attacks on pro-family clinics in Dearborn, Michigan, Asheville, North Carolina, and more than a dozen other sites around the country in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s repeal of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have seen us in Madison WI, Ft. Collins CO, Reisertown MA, Olympia WA, Des Moines IA, Lynwood WA, Washington DC, Ashville NC, Buffalo NY, Hollywood FL, Vancouver WA, Frederick MA, Denton TX, Gresham OR, Eugene OR, Portland OR, among others, and we work in countless locations invisibly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abolitionmedia.noblogs.org\/post\/2022\/06\/14\/janes-revenge-another-communique\/\">said<\/a> the group in a manifesto published on Abolition Media, an anarchist website.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in connection with any of the acts claimed by Jane\u2019s Revenge manifesto, although the Catholic News Agency has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/251837\/any-arrests-so-far-in-attacks-on-catholic-churches-pro-life-pregnancy-centers\">reported<\/a> that some youths have been arrested in acts of vandalism not associated with Jane\u2019s Revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Rantz, a conservative talk show host in Seattle, told The Epoch Times that several churches and pro-life crisis pregnancy centers have been attacked in Washington state as well, with no arrests other than one that doesn\u2019t seem to be connected to the abortion issue.<\/p>\n<p>Like CompassCare\u2019s Harden, Rantz makes no bones about pointing the finger for the violence at some progressive politicians, but not all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a story that I broke several weeks ago where a Democrat state Senator up for reelection \u2026 she produced a video that was celebrating the vandalism\u201d against a pro-life billboard in Gorst, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The video was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3547788\/rantz-democrat-senator-celebrates-pro-life-vandalism-abortion\/\">posted<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t really hide their intent to promote this kind of violent response when they don\u2019t get their way politically,\u201d said Rantz.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Vandalism-700x420-1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Vandalism-700x420-1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/noscript> Pro-abortion terrorist group Jane\u2019s Revenge leaves threats at Harbor Church in Olympia, Washington on May 22, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Harbor Church)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>2020 Redux?<\/h2>\n<p>Seattle was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/anti-police-protest-turns-violent-in-seattle_3525170.html\">scene<\/a> of some of the worst violence during the Black Lives Matter protest and riots of the summer of 2020, with sections of the downtown area made unhabitable and unpoliceable for over a month.<\/p>\n<p>While stopping short of calling the 2020 riots a dress rehearsal for today\u2019s more targeted and politically-motivated violence, Rantz does think the violence in 2020 and today are connected in that Democrats think they are best served by allowing the violence to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also think that as with the case in 2020, that a lot of the Democrats thought that they would benefit politically from the violence so they don\u2019t want to get too involved\u201d in calling for more rational means of political opposition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4542455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4542455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Supreme_court_Brett_Kavanaugh_220618-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Kavanaugh\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4542455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Supreme_court_Brett_Kavanaugh_220618-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Kavanaugh\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript> U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh listens during the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 4, 2018. (Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Targeted Assassination Attempt<\/h2>\n<p>The Buffalo center of CompassCare was burned out just days after a California man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/armed-man-arrested-near-home-of-supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh_4520132.html\">arrested<\/a> near the house of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an alleged aborted effort to kill the conservative jurist.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas John Roske was arrested with a black tactical chest rig, and a tactical knife, along with a Glock 17, clips, ammunitions, and zip ties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdd.uscourts.gov\/sites\/mdd\/files\/Roske-Affidavit.pdf\">according<\/a> to the probable cause statement filed with the court.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said that Roske traveled cross-country in what they are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-search-warrant-application-shows-chilling-online-postings-kavanaugh-assassination-suspect\">saying<\/a> was an attempt to kill as many as three Supreme Court Justices.<\/p>\n<p>Roske, 26, said that he was upset over the Supreme Court decision that reversed Roe v. Wade which returned the question of abortion back to individual states.<\/p>\n<p>Roske also expressed concern that upcoming decisions by the nation\u2019s highest court would tend to favor conservative views on the Constitution, said an FBI warrant obtained by Fox News.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Democracy in Danger\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>According to talk show host Rantz, Democrats have become obsessed with the idea that merely having differing views on political issues of the day from those of Democrats somehow threatens the fabric of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>That message was conveyed by Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), whose re-election campaign sent a handwritten postcard to at least one constituent warning that \u201cDemocracy is at stake this election day. Republicans are the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4634244\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-full wp-image-4634244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/296190996_182704507451234_2340291107319591335_n.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"320\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4634244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/296190996_182704507451234_2340291107319591335_n.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"320\" height=\"219\" \/><\/noscript> Postcard from Rep. Jennifer Wexton\u2019s (D-Va.) campaign office sent to a local constituent. (Provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The postcard, obtained by The Epoch Times, appeared to have no identification, such as a signature, but just referred to the need to re-elect Wexton or democracy will be in danger. The flip side of the postcard was marked as having been sent by \u201cJennifer Wexton for Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wexton is being opposed by GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/navy-vet-who-fled-vietnam-war-looks-to-take-back-virginias-10th-congressional-for-gop_4537743.html\">nominee<\/a> and Vietnamese refugee, Hung Cao.<\/p>\n<p>Cao, a retired special forces operator who left the Navy as a captain\u2014one rank below the flag rank of admiral\u2014took umbrage at the apparent suggestion by Wexton\u2019s campaign that he would endanger democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer Wexton should immediately apologize for her campaign\u2019s claims,\u201d said a Cao campaign spokesman in a statement to The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHung Cao has fought for our country honorably for 25 years. He\u2019s put his life on the line for his fellow Americans to protect our constitution. Wexton ought to be ashamed of her campaign slandering an immigrant to this country who wore our uniform in combat,\u201d added the campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2258145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-full wp-image-2258145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2017-06-14T234154Z_1_LYNXMPED5D1Z8_RTROPTP_3_VIRGINIA-SHOOTING.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2258145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2017-06-14T234154Z_1_LYNXMPED5D1Z8_RTROPTP_3_VIRGINIA-SHOOTING.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/noscript> A police officer mans a shooting scene after a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington in Alexandria, Va., on June 14, 2017. (Joshua Roberts\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Congress Targeted<\/h2>\n<p>The Capitol Police stepped up security for this year\u2019s Congressional Charity baseball game, citing threats by leftist climate activists who have threatened to disrupt the game if climate bills aren\u2019t passed by Congress, or at least are on the verge of passing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real violence being committed at this baseball game is by Congress, by Manchin, by his Republican allies and by everybody in Congress who\u2019s failing to take action on climate change, therefore consigning millions of people to die and millions more livelihoods to be destroyed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/climate-activists-plot-to-make-liberal-politicians-squirm\/\">said<\/a> Dan Sherrell, an organizer for the protest at the baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>The threats came years after the game was targeted by a left-wing gunman in 2017, who opened fire on a practice field for the Congressional baseball game, critically wounding then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others before being killed by Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old former construction worker and Bernie Sanders supporter, James T. Hodgkinson, attempted to kill Scalise and others because he \u201chated Republicans,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-pol-virginia-shooter-profile-20170614-story.html\">report<\/a> by the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<h2>Accepting Political Violence?<\/h2>\n<p>A pre-print of a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.07.15.22277693v1.full\">published<\/a> in July, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, found that \u201c[s]ubstantial minorities of the [US] population endorse violence, including lethal violence, to obtain political objectives,\u201d with nearly 8 million people in the United States at least \u201csomewhat willing\u201d to kill others to advance their political goals.<\/p>\n<p>Published at MedRxiv, the paper concentrated on concepts like QAnon, Donald Trump, stolen elections, and Western European traditions as justifications by conservatives who find political violence acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the paper also found that the largest minority of people who feel political violence is justified are those who find race-based violence justifiable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than a third of respondents (36.2%) reported that violence was at least sometimes justified \u2018to prevent discrimination based on race or ethnicity,\u2019\u201d with nearly 10 million Americans saying that violence was always justified to prevent racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>With the contemporary expansion of the meaning of words like \u201cdiscrimination,\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/academicaffairs.ucsc.edu\/events\/documents\/Microaggressions_Examples_Arial_2014_11_12.pdf\">encompass<\/a> concepts such as \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d it\u2019s much easier to see how violence is becoming more commonplace in a future that appears bleak, observers say, even as progressive seek to further expand definitions to widen their dispute on conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have Joe Biden, two weeks ago, asking Merrick Garland to investigate crisis pregnancy centers for fraud, it\u2019s an all-out war on these pregnancy centers,\u201d said Harden, who points out that they provide their services for free so fraud would be impossible\u2014unless you redefine the meaning of the word fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Harden was referring to a provision in a July 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/07\/08\/executive-order-on-protecting-access-to-reproductive-healthcare-services\/\">executive order<\/a> \u201cto protect people seeking reproductive health services from fraudulent schemes or deceptive practices.\u201d Biden has appointed Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta to head up the Department of Justice\u2019s task force on abortion. Gupta has been accused in the past of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-doj-official-smears-pregnancy-centers-amid-wave-of-attacks\/\">calling<\/a> crisis pregnancy centers like the one Harden runs \u201cfake clinics,\u201d raising worries that the DOJ will try to shut down pro-life clinics under an expanded definition of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a dystopian novel,\u201d said Harden.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to the White House and Hochul, James, and Wextons\u2019 offices for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-john-ransom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/05\/04\/WEB_JohnRansom.jpg\" alt=\"John Ransom\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Ransom is a freelance reporter covering U.S. news for The Epoch Times with offices in Washington, D.C., and Asia.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News AnalysisDemocrats continue to say that \u201cdemocracy is in danger\u201d if voters don\u2019t give liberals the majority in November, but violence by the left has defined the summer politically so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}