Buffalo Hat Man Did Nothing Wrong
Or, For He Who Is Not Against Us Is For Us
It started in the South Bay on May 29th. In reaction to a police officer’s involvement in George Floyd’s death, an incident that occurred about 2000 miles away, protestors (mostly disaffected young men and women) had begun to gather in city streets around the Bay. The combination of the media’s endless replays of what appeared to be (and proved not to be) a white police officer choking the life from a handcuffed black man combined with the months of lockdowns had created a situation rife with tension.
The crowd of BLM/Antifa supporters squared off with police in San Jose and after a standoff that resulted in prolific use of rubber bullets and tear gas, the agitators reorganized over social media near downtown Oakland. Over the next 8–12 hours what transpired was nothing resembling peaceful demonstration or a political movement. What occurred instead was pure chaos, a lashing out against structure and social order. Over 200 businesses looted/vandalized and 137 set on fire. Local malls were burned, department stores broken into and looted while over 50 cars were driven off a local lot, and “sporting goods” stores around the East Bay were broken into with hundreds of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition “vanishing” into the streets.
Scared residents along a 30 mile corridor huddled in their homes as the sounds of breaking glass, screeching tires, police sirens, and gunfire echoed around them. There were reports of criminals running into people’s homes fleeing law enforcement. I slept in my living room that night with my tools within arms reach while my wife and children slept in the back. We contemplated leaving to stay with family for the week.
The reason most of our dear readers don’t know about this was because the general lawlessness which gripped the nation for almost a month was so significant, our area of the world faded into the background of the general chaos. This helps us understand the scale of the devastation that went on in America’s urban enclaves between late May and early July 2020.
This was not a political movement. It was chaos.
And yet, the response from the Progressive Media apparatus and their Democrat political apparatchiks was one of minimization, explanation, and excusation.
“People were expressing their discontent.”
“Mostly peaceful protests.”
“93% of all protests were peaceful.”
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
“A Case for Looting.”
“Violence doesn’t include the destruction of property.”
These were all common sayings by groups as disparate (and strangely ideologically coordinated) as NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then Senator Kamala Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It’s almost as if they were all playing the same game with rules they knew but which to us outsiders seemed shockingly strange and unfamiliar. A dog-whistle letting people know in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, New York that the criminal chaos was going to be given cover by those in power.
Meanwhile, our academic/corporate overlords, far from any physical danger in their upper middle class homes and neighborhoods fawned over this new “movement.” They took knees, protested outside their suburban Starbucks, proudly displayed BLM flags while donating tens of millions toward various special interests, with almost all that money eventually being funneled into the Biden presidential campaign.
What is it that these elite institutions all understood? What game were they playing that only they seemed to know the rules to?
It’s simple. As with most answers to most questions, all one must do to find out is turn to Scripture. In the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 9, the disciples are trying to figure out how to deal with someone outside the group driving out demons in Jesus’ name.
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us.”
The general proposition Jesus presents is that if someone is doing God’s Kingdom work, even if not part of your group, you should not stop him. Why not?
Obviously because in a zero-sum game (which is not just religion, but also politics), those who do oppose your enemies, and the demons of scripture are certainly enemies of God, don’t oppose you. To put it another way, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So let us apply this same logic to the little dustup at the Capitol building that occurred a couple months back. A few overzealous people got carried away in their pursuit of justice and knocked over some computers, took a podium, and sat in the Speak of the House’s swivel chair. By the way, after the outsourcing of American Industry overseas, the Iraq War, the 50,000,000 aborted dead, the 1994 Crime Bill, the instantiation of laws violating nature itself, is there a more demonic place in the America over the last 50 years?
Though not part of my group and not associated with my community, it would seem like those who ran into that building were trying to drive out the same demons (Globalized Liberal Corporatist Progressivism) that I am. It’s from the halls of power that people are influenced and from those “hallowed” halls the influencers encourage them to indulge all their vices to their own destruction. The “liberation” from all value systems, from the church, from nature itself which leads to unprecedented numbers of suicide, addiction, homelessness, divorce, deaths of despair, and increasing levels of mental illness. These are the “costs” born, mostly by the poor, out of this unceasing push for “freedom”.
So in some ways, those Capitol protestors were not just driving out demons, they were attempting to disrupt the source of power from which so much demonic activity derives its blessing. Is there any wonder the military buildup was so immense in the days (and now months) following? The powers and principalities of the air do not lightly give up their hegemony.
In infiltrating the Capitol. In driving out the officials. In resisting the work of power, they were trying to drive out the source of much demonic activity. They were doing the Lord’s work.
And by taking that chair from Speaker Pelosi, Buffalo Hat Man, with the look of one who has fasted greatly, attempted to drive a literal demon out of our national capital.
In other words, Buffalo Hat Man did nothing wrong.
