The headline is itself misleading. These were acts of theft and property destruction, i.e. crimes, by a gang. It was a mob of looters and vandals, not "Anti-Nazi" protesters rioting after clashing with the Nazis.
A problem is that the media and politicians coddle and make excuses for these thugs, instead of vigorously prosecuting them and exposing them for what they are. "Anti Nazi Protester" is a thing to be proud of in my book, but that doesn't equate with "looting pillaging thug" which is what the gangs are.
I am in full agreement that the 1st Amendment protects BOTH sides of that march in what they wish to espouse. However, having seen the human toll Communism took (and continues to take) on the Russian people, I award groups like Nazis and Communists "special status". I would include any "death cultists" like the Wahabbis (sp?) and radical Islamics in that (admittedly) self-made designation. In that sense, I agree with Cosmoline. There are "threats", and there are "Threats".
These people are not interested, not in the least, in anything other than forging an entire society into their sick ideological ideal, regardless of any obstructions in their path, and leave no democratic recourse later. Regardless of the cost in human lives, misery, poverty, starvation, previous laws or covenants, etc., they will create what they want by the truckload... DEATH, and therein lies why they are so zealous in their barbarism. To their minds they are never killing, but always creating man (whether it be the Aryan Race or the New Soviet Man) in a new and greater image. They aren't just doing God's work, they are convinced they are improving on it, or supplanting it. Just as the Creator made us in His image, these people strive to re-create it in theirs. Is it any wonder the results are so uniformly ghastly regardless of the names of history's despots?
There are no "people" in their plans, only tools to be either molded and used, or discarded. The conscience or soul is to be driven out. It is the second casualty, after the mind.
For these reasons, Nazi's/Commies/Islamicists need to be watched. If they have gotten organized to a point where they are going to start going around intimidating people like the Brownshirts of old, then they themselves need to be intimidated (or worse) into oblivion. Yes, that's a subjective call, but few things in life aren't, and I trust myself and my neighbors to make that decision far more than the gangbangers (who ultimately did nothing to the Nazis) or the Mayor/Government (who did nothing to any criminal and equally did nothing good for any law-abiding citizen).
Sadly, the Socialist/Marxist/Communist view doesn't get much virulent reporting. It is becoming far more pervasive in everyday life as just "the way things are", and in our schools as "the way things ought to be", or worse "the way things WERE" (false histories and false visions of the America that was/is). I genuinely fear that when Communism comes (or rather, is finally fully here), nobody will even recognize it. Most will be hoarding guns and ammo "waiting for the balloon to go up" or some other rubbish, and won't even see that they, and their children, are done for.
I know it may seem cheesy plugging a book, but if you haven't read Matthew Maly's "Russia As It Is" (after having been there to see it firsthand too) what I'm saying won't make much sense to many. Lots of big/fat books on Communist/Nazi/Totalitarian mechanics and leadership, none on its pervasively evil nature (and mention of common goals of Nazism and Islamicism) like this one.
