{"id":2222481,"date":"2024-04-16T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-who-shut-down-highways-arent-protesters-theyre-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:48:47","slug":"activists-who-shut-down-highways-arent-protesters-theyre-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-who-shut-down-highways-arent-protesters-theyre-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Individuals who block highways are not simply protesters but rather classified as terrorists"},"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\">26<\/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%2Factivists-who-shut-down-highways-arent-protesters-theyre-terrorists%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=2222481&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>The text discusses \u2062the strategic targeting of infrastructure in military campaigns, \u2063emphasizing the disruption\u200b of transportation as a key tactic. It also highlights recent incidents where activists blocked bridges, leading to debates about \u200dtheir\u200d charges and societal implications. Moreover, it analyzes law enforcement\u200c responses in different locations, underscoring\u2063 the need for decisive action to prevent such disruptions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first target in any protracted military campaign is pretty much always infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the U.S. invaded Iraq with a \u201cshock and awe\u201d strategy, we hit the bridges right away. We did the same thing in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and Korea. The reason for that is pretty simple: If you shut down transportation, you shut down the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purpose of taking out bridges and airports isn\u2019t to convince anyone that you\u2019re right. It\u2019s not a moral argument. The point is to disable your enemy as quickly as possible and to make them vulnerable to further attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After what happened yesterday, it\u2019s clear that the domestic enemies of the United States \u2014 the ones we\u2019ve imported and those our universities have indoctrinated \u2014 understand the importance of infrastructure very well. In a series of coordinated attacks, Hamas sympathizers stormed bridges and airports all over the country. I\u2019m going to go through several of these attacks, and I\u2019ll start with by far the most significant and longest-lasting interruption. It took place on both the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So just a month ago, activists shut down the Bay Bridge. As you just heard, they delayed several organ donations. The San Francisco Chronicle <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/motorist-stuck-bay-bridge-protest-describes-19085430.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that at least one person had a medical emergency while he was stuck in traffic. But nothing happened to any of the people responsible for that, they received something like five hours of community service. So yesterday, it happened again, this time on the Golden Gate Bridge and on the interstate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News reports like this always say \u201cprotesters\u201d are shutting down traffic. That\u2019s accurate, but it only tells part of the story. The other part is that the political leaders in these cities are also choosing to shut down traffic by allowing the protesters to do it. It would be exceedingly easy to not only clear these blockades but also dissuade anyone from ever pulling a stunt like this again. All you would have to do is pull them off the road by force and then hit them with every criminal charge even vaguely applicable, including terrorism charges. Throw the whole book at just one of these people, one time, and it will never happen again. Give one of them prison time \u2014 real prison time, 15 years of prison time \u2014 and the problem is solved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forever. Just like that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, the authorities in California are doing the opposite. The last time this took place, they gave these criminals a few hours of community service.. This time they let them shut down one of the longest bridges in the country for five hours before making a single arrest. All told, 38 people were ultimately <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/pro-palestinian-protesters-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-and-i-880-in-oakland\/14668534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland interstate. They were hit with a variety of charges from false imprisonment to unlawful assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1348-activists-who-shut-down-highways-aren-t-protesters-they-re-terrorists-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of those charges, it\u2019s important to point out, carry a potential sentence of over a decade in prison. That kind of penalty is reserved for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-suburb-backs-down-from-ban-on-abortion-clinic-protesters\/\" title=\"Seattle Suburb Backs Down From Ban on Abortion Clinic Protesters\">pro-life demonstrators<\/a> who pray outside of abortion clinics and allegedly block access to the facility. If you do that, you get the predawn SWAT team raid from the DOJ and a very good chance you spend the next 10 years in prison. But if you sit on the highway for five hours and prevent thousands of people from getting where they need to go, then that\u2019s not as big a deal. In fact, false imprisonment is the most serious charge that any of these demonstrators face, and the max you can get for that in California is something like four years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, it\u2019s virtually certain they\u2019re not going to serve that time or even go to trial for any of this. They\u2019ll all get community service and do the same thing again a month from now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that\u2019s odd, even by the Biden administration\u2019s own logic \u2014 because for all we know, there might have been people on these roads who were headed to get abortions. And they were delayed or even blocked from doing so. Will the DOJ look into the number of Californians who had to reschedule their abortions yesterday because their bridge was illegally shut down? Think of how many children might still be alive because of those protesters. Think about how many opportunities to murder babies were squandered. That\u2019s the kind of thing that normally keeps Merrick Garland up at night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If pro-lifers deserve a decade in prison for mildly inconveniencing people who are trying to access one abortion clinic in Nashville, these people deserve a century. But of course, they\u2019re on the Left, so they can literally do whatever they want, all the time. Logic doesn\u2019t really apply. There will be no DOJ probe into the organizers of this protest. There will be no RICO case against them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But increasingly, it\u2019s clear that there should be. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/heres-why-the-golden-gate-bridge-i-880-shut-down\/#:~:text=Protester%20organizer%20Ellen%20Caminiti%20sent,in%20Palestine%2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to San Francisco\u2019s local news station KRON, a woman named Ellen Caminiti was one of the \u201corganizers\u201d of the Golden Gate protest yesterday. She was apparently off-site, serving as a representative. I looked her up, and it turns out she\u2019s the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nclrights.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/ellen-caminiti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">communications director<\/a><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  at a nonprofit called the National Center for Lesbian Rights, or NCLR. So this is an organization that gets tax breaks to advance \u201clesbian rights,\u201d and at 9:00 a.m. on a Monday, their communications director was organizing a criminal blockade of one of the most important bridges in the country. One of my producers reached out to Ellen Caminiti about this. She said, quote, \u201cNCLR had no role in it, that is just my day-job, which is completely separate from this.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s confusing about that, again, is that this blockade took place first thing Monday morning. That counts as \u201cduring the day.\u201d So it sounds like Ellen Caminiti\u2019s \u201cday job\u201d is shutting down infrastructure in San Francisco in the name of \u201cPalestinian solidarity.\u201d We followed up with NCLR to ask them about this. We wanted to know if they had any reaction whatsoever to their employee assisting in a criminal blockade during the workday. They didn\u2019t respond to that question. All they said is that they had nothing to do with the blockade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019d think that, if NCLR disagreed with what their employee did during work hours, they\u2019d fire her immediately. At the very least they\u2019d condemn what she did. Especially given that she did it on behalf of Hamas, a group that would happily toss everyone in the organization off of a rooftop. But no such luck. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s because NCLR, like many so-called Left-wing \u201cpublic interest nonprofits,\u201d isn\u2019t really working in the public interest at all. It\u2019s a tax shelter that employs unhinged activists who want to destroy this country. They should lose their tax-exempt nonprofit status immediately. Nonprofits aren\u2019t supposed to have anything remotely to do with criminal activity, and it definitely sounds like, at a minimum, they\u2019re tacitly endorsing exactly that. But, of course, there will be no DOJ investigation, at least not under the Biden administration, because the Biden administration wants these kinds of blockades to occur. That\u2019s why they took place all day yesterday, all over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Seattle, demonstrators blocked access to the airport, forcing travelers to walk to the terminal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In New York, thugs stormed the Brooklyn Bridge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Chicago, they blocked the highway leading to O\u2019Hare airport. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Dearborn Michigan, a caravan of Hamas sympathizers backed up traffic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Fremont California, they attacked a Tesla production facility, apparently because of Elon Musk\u2019s tweets, forcing the plant to declare an emergency and close. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In all of these cases, except for the situation in Fremont, there wasn\u2019t much of a police response, at least not initially. In Seattle, officers eventually arrested the people blockading the roadway. Julio Rosas reports that on the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYPD made an effort to stop the demonstrators, and succeeded in stopping about half of them. But traffic was still disrupted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far as I can tell, the only decisive reaction to these riots took place in Miami, where police hauled away the demonstrators the moment they broke the law. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, look at that. The police just drag them away. It\u2019s not hard. It takes a few minutes, and the whole city is no longer held hostage by a handful of terrorists. Just throw them in jail and make an example of them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 communications director uploaded the footage you just saw, along with this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BryanDGriffin\/status\/1779972576422322354\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">message:<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cIn Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s obviously the right response, as rare as it may be. And when police don\u2019t do this, immediately, then citizens have every right to do it themselves. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senator Tom Cotton put it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1780039918737121502\">this way<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-lawmakers-pass-bill-that-would-make-blocking-emergency-vehicles-a-felony\/\" title=\"Texas Lawmakers Pass Bill That Would Make Blocking Emergency Vehicles a Felony\">blocking traffic<\/a>: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It\u2019s time to put an end to this nonsense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the problem with what Tom Cotton said is that, if someone does take matters into their own hands, there\u2019s a very good chance they\u2019ll spend the rest of their life in prison. The Biden DOJ will destroy them. They will do nothing to protect innocent people from these terrorists. But the moment someone tries to take action \u2014 even if it\u2019s justified \u2014 then the feds will hunt them down. It\u2019s almost like that\u2019s what the Biden administration wants to happen at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It appears to be what the NYPD wants. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-cori-bush-claims-colleagues-spew-lies-asserts-that-police-are-the-real-killers\/\" title=\"Rep. Cori Bush Claims Colleagues \u2018Spew Lies,\u2019 Asserts That Police Are The Real Killers\">police officers didn\u2019<\/a>t have much of a reaction when a Hamas sympathizer lit an American flag on fire and shouted \u201cDeath to America,\u201d right in front of about five cops. He just walked away. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, if you call yourself \u201cAmerica first\u201d \u2014 and a lot of people do now \u2014 it goes without saying that you should be stridently opposed to people who shout \u201cdeath to America,\u201d burn American flags, and go out of their way to cause problems for American citizens. If your \u201cAmerica first\u201d principles somehow find common cause with people who wish death on America and its people, that\u2019s a good indication that you are, at best, very confused. But that confusion needs to end at this point. This is well past the realm of online trolling. There are now coordinated attacks occurring all over the country targeting its infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You hear a lot of people say, \u201cWhy would these people do this? They\u2019re not going to convince anyone to support their cause by blocking traffic or shutting down the airport!\u201d Well, yeah. That\u2019s because the objective of Hamas sympathizers living in this country isn\u2019t to convince you of anything. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disrupting infrastructure \u2014 as always \u2014 is just the first phase in a much larger campaign they have planned. And unless more states follow Florida\u2019s lead and shut this down immediately, then very soon, we\u2019ll find out what the next phase is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any prolonged military campaign, the primary target is typically infrastructure. 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