thewashingtonstandard--2020-10-07--Texas:  Cop Arrested For Murder After Killing Town Hero For Stopping A Man From Beating A Woman

Wolfe City , TX — As TFTP reported on Monday , a local sports hero was living up to his reputation Saturday night by “ doing the right thing ” and intervening in a domestic fight at a gas station .
Former Hardin-Simmons University football player , Jonathan Price , 31 , would be killed by police for helping out his fellow citizens .
In an extremely rare move , the officer who killed Price , Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas was arrested and charged with murder for the shooting .
According to the Texas Rangers , Price was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the officer and was merely walking away when Lucas opened fire and killed him .
The AP reports that Lucas , 22 , was booked into the Hunt County Jail on Monday night , the Texas Rangers said in a statement released by the Texas Department of Public Safety .
Jail records show bail was set at $ 1 million .
“ The preliminary investigation indicates that the actions of Officer Lucas were not objectionably reasonable , ” the statement said .
According to the statement from authorities , Lucas responded to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ station Saturday night and encountered Price who reportedly just broke it up .
The Texas Rangers stated that Price “ resisted in a non-threatening posture and began walking away , ” and was then killed .
Likely knowing he did nothing wrong , Price simply tried to walk away after reportedly stopping a man from beating a woman — and for this , he was murdered by police .
“ When police arrived , I ’ m told , he raised his hands and attempted to explain what was going on , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Facebook posting .
“ Police fired Tasers at him and when his body convulsed from the electrical current , they ‘ perceived a threat ’ and shot him to death.
” While the arrest of Lucas was extremely fast when compared to other arrests of police officers , Merritt said that given the circumstances , Lucas should have been arrested faster .
After Lucas ’ arrest was announced , Merritt posted : “ This didn ’ t happen quickly .
It should ( have ) happened the day he murdered JP .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is the first step .
This man is dangerous and should not be out on bond .
The family was relieved to hear of his arrest and are looking forward to his conviction , ” said Merritt .
Price ’ s father , Junior Price spoke about that alleged deadly choice as well saying “ I want to see what the man gets… what he has coming to him for killing my son.
” During an interview over the weekend , Prince ’ s friends and family explained what a pillar of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ He had a good heart .
He always tried to help others , ” said Price ’ s mother , Marcella Louis in an interview with WFAA.
“ They took my son from me , ” she said .
“ They took my baby.
” The Texas Ranger ’ s report appears to back up the description from family members and multiple eyewitnesses , who said officer Lucas shot and killed Price on Saturday night after an argument broke out between a couple inside a convenience store .
As we reported on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hero who tried to break up the fight inside the store before it spilled out into the parking lot .
When police showed up , Lucas shot Price , who was unarmed .
Many of the residents in Wolfe City — a town about 60 miles northeast of Dallas — remembered the local sports star as a caring man who went out of his way to help others .
Head Coach at HSU , Jesse Burleson tweeted , “ Lost one of our own in a terrible situation .
Jonathan Price was an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cowboy Football .
Was only with us for a short time in 2008 but was always a Cowboy .
Prayers for comfort and peace for Jonathan ’ s family.
” Former Major League baseball star for the Texas Rangers , third baseman Will Middlebrooks grew up with Price and told reporters that news of Price ’ s death sickened him because Price was the hero in the scenario and he was the only one who police shot and killed .
“ What ’ s really sickening is that he was doing the right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hands on a woman and stepped in to stop the altercation , ” said Middlebrooks .
“ The man then fought him… then the police shot him .
He was unarmed .
I ’ m heartbroken.
” Middlebrooks started a fundraiser for Price ’ s family which has surpassed its goal of $ 50,000 as of Tuesday .
Dale Trompler , was Price ’ s high school football coach at Wolfe City .
He said “ Price made an undeniable imprint on my life and will be in my heart forever.
” Trompler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he would preach to his players to always do the right thing .
Sadly , doing the right thing got this innocent man killed .
“ I never thought that doing so would cost him his life , ” said Trompler .
According to reports , the convenience store was equipped with multiple cameras which caught the entire thing on video , however , they will not be publicly released at this time .
Though it wasn ’ t publicly released , the video was likely the impetus behind the charges against Lucas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this story is especially tragic given Price ’ s recent comments on trying to bridge the divide between police and the policed .
Price has no criminal record and in a tragic irony , he was actually a police supporter who called for peace between the citizens and law enforcement .
In a Facebook post in June , as many cities in the nation were on fire from protests , Price drew on his past experiences to find common ground and urge peace .
“ With all the tension and animosity going on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I ’ m on the same fence as lil Wayne , with him saying a white cop saved his life , and hasn ’ t been too vocal based off EXPERIENCES I was raised by the Malone ’ s and Woodruff ’ s in my hometown for a LARGE amount of my youth , was my 2nd family then , and still are in 2020 if I have to say anything .
The amount of food fed to me they spent on me , outweighs any BS about race or color right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s never done a DAMN THING for me , or supported my business ventures and they ’ re my BLOOD They will FOREVER be 1,000,000 in my book & they know who they are !
They ’ re to blame for my country side and addiction to white women not complaining one bit “ There were times I should have been detained for speeding , outstanding citations , outdated registration , dozing off at a red light before making it to my garage downtown Dallas after a lonnng night out , ” Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a sobriety test after leaving a bar in Wylie , Texas by 2 white cops and still let me drive to where I was headed , and by the way they consider Wylie , Texas to be VERY racist .
I ’ ve never got that kind of ENERGY from the po-po.
” “ Not saying black lives don ’ t matter , but don ’ t forget about your own , or your experiences through growth / ‘ waking up , ’ ” said Price .
Because cops kill innocent people , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Price will not be able to post about his last interaction with police .

Wolfe City, TX — As TFTP reported on Monday, a local sports hero was living up to his reputation Saturday night by “doing the right thing” and intervening in a domestic fight at a gas station. Former Hardin-Simmons University football player, Jonathan Price, 31, would be killed by police for helping out his fellow citizens. In an extremely rare move, the officer who killed Price, Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas was arrested and charged with murder for the shooting.
According to the Texas Rangers, Price was not presenting a threat at all to the officer and was merely walking away when Lucas opened fire and killed him.
The AP reports that Lucas, 22, was booked into the Hunt County Jail on Monday night, the Texas Rangers said in a statement released by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Jail records show bail was set at $1 million.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that the actions of Officer Lucas were not objectionably reasonable,” the statement said.
According to the statement from authorities, Lucas responded to the call about the incident at the gas station Saturday night and encountered Price who reportedly just broke it up. The Texas Rangers stated that Price “resisted in a non-threatening posture and began walking away,” and was then killed.
Likely knowing he did nothing wrong, Price simply tried to walk away after reportedly stopping a man from beating a woman — and for this, he was murdered by police.
“When police arrived, I’m told, he raised his hands and attempted to explain what was going on,” said civil rights attorney Lee Merritt in a Facebook posting. “Police fired Tasers at him and when his body convulsed from the electrical current, they ‘perceived a threat’ and shot him to death.”
While the arrest of Lucas was extremely fast when compared to other arrests of police officers, Merritt said that given the circumstances, Lucas should have been arrested faster.
After Lucas’ arrest was announced, Merritt posted: “This didn’t happen quickly. It should (have) happened the day he murdered JP. John should still be here.”
“This is the first step. This man is dangerous and should not be out on bond. The family was relieved to hear of his arrest and are looking forward to his conviction,” said Merritt.
Price’s father, Junior Price spoke about that alleged deadly choice as well saying “I want to see what the man gets… what he has coming to him for killing my son.”
During an interview over the weekend, Prince’s friends and family explained what a pillar of the community this young man was.
“He had a good heart. He always tried to help others,” said Price’s mother, Marcella Louis in an interview with WFAA.“They took my son from me,” she said. “They took my baby.”
The Texas Ranger’s report appears to back up the description from family members and multiple eyewitnesses, who said officer Lucas shot and killed Price on Saturday night after an argument broke out between a couple inside a convenience store.
As we reported on Monday, witnesses described Price as a hero who tried to break up the fight inside the store before it spilled out into the parking lot. When police showed up, Lucas shot Price, who was unarmed.
Many of the residents in Wolfe City — a town about 60 miles northeast of Dallas — remembered the local sports star as a caring man who went out of his way to help others.
Head Coach at HSU, Jesse Burleson tweeted, “Lost one of our own in a terrible situation. Jonathan Price was an awesome young man during his time with Cowboy Football. Was only with us for a short time in 2008 but was always a Cowboy. Prayers for comfort and peace for Jonathan’s family.”
Former Major League baseball star for the Texas Rangers, third baseman Will Middlebrooks grew up with Price and told reporters that news of Price’s death sickened him because Price was the hero in the scenario and he was the only one who police shot and killed.
“What’s really sickening is that he was doing the right thing… he saw a man putting his hands on a woman and stepped in to stop the altercation,” said Middlebrooks. “The man then fought him… then the police shot him. He was unarmed. I’m heartbroken.”
Middlebrooks started a fundraiser for Price’s family which has surpassed its goal of $50,000 as of Tuesday.
Dale Trompler, was Price’s high school football coach at Wolfe City. He said “Price made an undeniable imprint on my life and will be in my heart forever.”
Trompler said as his coach and friend, he would preach to his players to always do the right thing. Sadly, doing the right thing got this innocent man killed.
“I never thought that doing so would cost him his life,” said Trompler.
According to reports, the convenience store was equipped with multiple cameras which caught the entire thing on video, however, they will not be publicly released at this time. Though it wasn’t publicly released, the video was likely the impetus behind the charges against Lucas.
As we stated on Monday, this story is especially tragic given Price’s recent comments on trying to bridge the divide between police and the policed. Price has no criminal record and in a tragic irony, he was actually a police supporter who called for peace between the citizens and law enforcement. In a Facebook post in June, as many cities in the nation were on fire from protests, Price drew on his past experiences to find common ground and urge peace.
“With all the tension and animosity going on with race and the 1time ᴿᴺ. . I’m on the same fence as lil Wayne, with him saying a white cop saved his life, and hasn’t been too vocal based off EXPERIENCES I was raised by the Malone’s and Woodruff’s in my hometown for a LARGE amount of my youth, was my 2nd family then, and still are in 2020 if I have to say anything. The amount of food fed to me they spent on me, outweighs any BS about race or color right now. I have family that’s never done a DAMN THING for me, or supported my business ventures and they’re my BLOOD They will FOREVER be 1,000,000 in my book & they know who they are! They’re to blame for my country side and addiction to white women not complaining one bit “There were times I should have been detained for speeding, outstanding citations, outdated registration, dozing off at a red light before making it to my garage downtown Dallas after a lonnng night out,” Price said. “I’ve passed a sobriety test after leaving a bar in Wylie, Texas by 2 white cops and still let me drive to where I was headed, and by the way they consider Wylie, Texas to be VERY racist. I’ve never got that kind of ENERGY from the po-po.” “Not saying black lives don’t matter, but don’t forget about your own, or your experiences through growth / ‘waking up,’” said Price.
Because cops kill innocent people, even ones who are heroes, sadly, Price will not be able to post about his last interaction with police.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-10-07--Cultural Marxism’s Origins: How the Disciples of an Obscure Italian Linguist Subverted America

You may have heard the terms “ Cultural Marxism , ” “ Critical Theory ” or “ Frankfurt School ” bandied about .
And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century , there ’ s a good chance that you don ’ t know much about the deep theory , where the ideology comes from and what it has planned for America – and the world .
The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism , pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci .
Gramscian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marxism .
One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx , Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two .
He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of .
Whereas Classical Marxism located what has been called “ the revolutionary subject ” ( the people who will overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism ) within the broad working class , primarily in what is now the First World , Gramscism takes a very different approach .
This approach underpins most of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the West today .
In a sense , we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution .
There are two important diversions that Gramscism has from more traditional Marxist thought : First , that economics was the base of culture and politics .
Second , philosophical materialism in the Marxist sense where reality is effectively formed by the means of economic production .
For Gramsci , culture was more important than either economics or politics .
This was what needed to be changed for there to be a revolution .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for revolution was not the economic might of an organized working class , but a “ long march through the institutions ” ( a phrase actually coined by German Marxist Rudi Dutschke ) , whereby every institution in the West would be subverted through penetration and infiltration .
Throughout this article , we will use the term “ Cultural Marxism ” as a catchall to refer to this phenomenon , because it is the most all-encompassing and does not limit us to discussing any one specific variation ( Gramsci , the Frankfurt School @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we should briefly mention that , the claims of Dr. Jordan Peterson notwithstanding , Cultural Marxism is ideologically distinct from postmodernism and deconstruction , both of which are hostile toward Marxism .
We will not touch on either postmodernism or deconstruction in this article , though they certainly have been influential on the international left .
There is a tiny kernel of Cultural Marxism within Classical Marxism .
Namely , that Marx himself was obsessed with the kinds of detailed critiques that later came to characterize Cultural Marxism – for example , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anti-Dühring ( which is actually by Engels ) , Critique of Hegel ’ s Philosophy of Right , and A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy .
This is perhaps best exemplified by the famous remark in Theses on Feuerbach that “ philosophers have only interpreted the world , in various ways ; the point is to change it.
” Antonio Gramsci , however , seems to be the best place to locate the genesis of Cultural Marxism proper .
Gramsci was the son of an Albano-Sardinian low-ranking government official .
Without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is probably not a coincidence that the son of a low-ranking civil servant was able to see the power that low-ranking bureaucrats would have if all of them were guided by the proper ideology .
Gramsci attended the University of Turin where he studied linguistics – not philosophy or economics .
Health and financial problems led him to leave his studies prematurely , shortly after he joined the Italian Socialist Party .
In this period , as well as the period immediately following the Russian Revolution , Gramsci was a fairly standard Communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the party line , none of which are relevant to the development of Cultural Marxism .
Beginning in 1924 , he was the head of the Italian Communist Party .
For this , he was arrested by the Fascist government in 1926 , and sentenced to 20 years in prison under newly enacted emergency laws .
He died in prison on April 27 , 1937 , at the age of 46 , due to a number of untreated health problems .
It was in prison that Gramsci began formulating the core of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the core of leftist thought throughout the West .
In the Prison Notebooks , he broke from Classical Marxism , formulating a new and largely distinct ideology : • Cultural hegemony is a more important factor in maintaining capitalism than economic or political hegemony .
• Cultural and social education of workers must be performed to create a class of worker-intellectuals capable of combating capitalism .
• Civil society is distinct from political society .
The latter rules through domination and coercion , whereas the former rules through normalization and consent .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the material world ) in favor of a semi-mystical view of history , as well as a greater degree of cultural relativism .
• Further critiques of economic determinism ( the notion that economics is the primary driver of human history and civilization ) and philosophical materialism ( the philosophical claim that the material world is either the only reality or the most important one ) .
Later theorists , including the famous Frankfurt School , which introduced elements of Freudian psychoanalysis , antipositivism ( the notion that human society can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and existentialism , a philosophical movement that posits that “ being determines consciousness ” and sees humanity as necessarily hemmed in by a variety of forces beyond their control .
There has been an attempt to smear the identification of the Frankfurt School and similar currents as Cultural Marxism as an expression of anti-Semitism and ( of course ) a “ conspiracy theory.
” While there are certainly anti-Semites who talk about Cultural Marxism , they often do so from the perspective of an obsession with the alleged “ Jewish ” nature of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the characterization of Cultural Marxism as somehow “ Jewish ” as well as the notion that its existence is a “ conspiracy theory.
” Nor do we propose that there is some centralized ideological cabal directing the contemporary left from a Cultural Marxist perspective .
It is simply that these ideas have become fashionable among the left over the last 50 or so years .
Whatever one seeks to label the modern ideological underpinnings of the left , it is clear that it has its foundation in the ideas articulated by Gramsci , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as Rudi Dutschke and others .
People often refer to the Frankfurt School as some kind of nebulous ideological current .
In fact , it was a discrete group of scholars working together at a specific period of time .
While they shared many assumptions and conclusions , they were not entirely homogeneous , mostly in terms of their focus of study .
The Frankfurt School was , in fact , the Institute for Social Research , an adjunct facility of the Goethe University Frankfurt .
It was the first fully Marxist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was funded through the generosity of well-to-do scion of an Argentine grain merchant , Felix Weil .
The Frankfurt School is marked by an interdisciplinary approach .
Rather than studying art , culture , politics and philosophy , they studied the interplay between them all from a Marxist perspective .
During the interwar period , the Institute was moved first to Vienna and then to New York City , where they joined Columbia University , to avoid the rise of fascism in Europe .
The first important figure for our purposes to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ György Lukács , the son of a wealthy Hungarian investment banker .
He is frequently published under the name Georg Lukács .
Lukács was no armchair theorist : He was a leading light in the Hungarian Revolution of 1917 , as well as one of the leading theoreticians of the Hungarian Red Terror during the Hungarian Soviet Republic .
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , he had a falling out with the international leadership of Communism .
He later went to the Soviet Union , where he was detained and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1945 .
His relationship with Stalinism is ambiguous and a hotly debated topic among historians , but he was the primary instrument by which the Hungarian Writers ’ Union was purged .
His primary contribution to Cultural Marxism is reification , the notion that everything becomes an object under capitalism and that people under capitalism are more like things than human beings .
He also said that Marxism would still be valid if it were proved to be false , because it is a methodology of social transformation above all else .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cultural Marxism is Herbert Marcuse .
He is often referred to as “ the Father of the New Left.
” It is potentially worth noting that he worked for the Office of Strategic Services , which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency .
Like Lukács , Marcuse had direct experience in revolutionary movements in postwar Europe .
He was a participant in the Spartacist Uprising in Germany , which was an abortive attempt at forming a Soviet-style government in that country .
Curiously , some of his work in the late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Martin Heidegger , who later became the sort of unofficial philosopher of the Nazi regime in Germany .
A number of radicals have cited Marcuse as a major influence , including Angela Davis , Abbie Hoffman and Rudi Dutschke .
Marcuse ’ s most important contribution as far as we are concerned is the notion of “ repressive tolerance.
” In his A Critique of Pure Tolerance , Marcuse argues for something that will be familiar to readers of this website : Tolerance should only be applied to left-wing groups and ideas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be mercilessly suppressed .
Specifically , he advocated for “ withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies , armament , chauvinism , discrimination on the grounds of race and religion , or that oppose the extension of public services , social security , medical care , etc.
” Marcuse is perhaps the most influential of the Frankfurt School thinkers in the United States .
Anytime you hear a leftist explain why tolerance actually means intolerance , they ’ re channeling Marcuse .
Finally , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wealthy Orthodox Jewish family , Horkheimer ’ s father owned a series of successful textile mills in Stuttgart .
He was drafted at the beginning of the First World War , but was rejected on medical grounds and then enrolled in Munich University .
By 1926 , he was in Frankfurt , and by 1930 , he was a professor of philosophy at Frankfurt University .
When the Institute for Social Research directorship became vacant , Horkheimer was elected to this position thanks to a mysterious endowment made by an anonymous wealthy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s watch that the Frankfurt School ’ s raison d ’ être became fusing the ideas of Karl Marx with those of Sigmund Freud .
He was the father of Critical Theory , which is less a “ theory ” than it is a rhetorical technique of viewing everything – except , of course , Critical Theory – through a critical lens and an eye toward discrediting social institutions .
Horkheiumer curiously ( though perhaps not surprisingly ) arrived at Critical Theory while appraising his own role as the scion of a bourgeois @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proletarian revolution .
Perhaps the most didactically “ Critical Theory ” work of Horkheimer is Dialectic of Enlightenment .
Among other things , it argues that popular , mass culture is a sort of mechanized and industrialized means by which authoritarian control is maintained over the broad mass of Westerners .
There are other figures in the Frankfurt School , however to catalog each and every one would make for a much longer text .
We present the above three as exemplars of the intellectual tendency and a solid basis for understanding it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ While it is often attributed to Gramsci – and in a sense , he is the godfather of the notion – the “ long march through the institutions ” was , as stated above , a phrase coined by Rudi Dutschke , a German Communist activist .
The phrase itself is a nod to the “ Long March ” of the Chinese Communists .
The long march represents another significant shift in thought away from Classical Marxism .
In Classical Marxist thought , the state is seen as an instrument of class oppression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the proletariat as a weapon against the bourgeoisie .
Classical Marxists did not seek to occupy the existing state and leverage it for their own purposes .
Rather , the Classical Marxists believed it was necessary to destroy the instruments of the bourgeois state and construct a proletarian state in its place .
Some key concepts underlying this theory : First , the state is an instrument of class domination and , as such , is fundamentally based on economics or what Marx called the infrastructure .
Everything else – culture , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ superstructure or something built on top of the class-based , economic structure .
What ’ s more , “ class ” is not defined in relative terms , such as how much income one makes or even how much one owns , but rather on the relationship to production .
A poor farmer was probably worse off than an urban worker , but was not a proletarian because he owned the means of production , even if these means were meager .
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was , in every meaningful sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state based on participatory workers ’ organizations was led by a self-consciously revolutionary party to topple the existing state and erect a new one in its place .
Indeed , Lenin acted on clear definitions from Marx about what constituted “ the state ” : “ armed bodies of men , ” that is to say , police , courts , prisons and the military .
The Bolsheviks did not simply take the existing “ armed bodies of men ” and use them for their own purposes .
Nor did the Communists of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and replaced them with their own .
The bottom line of the difference between Classical Marxism and Cultural Marxism is that the latter sees the state as effectively neutral – something that can be taken over and used for its own purposes – while the former does not .
Cultural Marxism is interested not in revolution in the classical 19th-century sense of throwing up barricades , toppling the monarchy and setting up guillotines .
Its interests lie in cultural transformations , after which other transformations ( political and economic ) can take place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is in many ways exactly what it sounded like .
Proponents of Cultural Marxism were expected to go out there and ingratiate themselves into every aspect of society .
Once there , whether this was in bowling leagues or board rooms , they would push their ideology and attempt to transform society .
It wasn ’ t as dramatic or sudden as the revolution espoused by Classical Marxists and their Marxist-Leninist children , but it was considered both more effective and , more to the point , necessary for fundamental transformation of society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed , political and economic transformation could be enacted .
A final note : The change of the “ revolutionary subject ” is an important topic to consider .
Whereas Classical Marxists were quite dogmatic about their belief that it was only the working class who could effect revolution , Cultural Marxists saw the revolutionary subject basically anywhere else , viewing the traditional Western working class as apathetic at best and actively reactionary , bordering on fascistic , at worst .
This was not entirely limited to Cultural Marxists – the entire Trotskyist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the question of whether or not the Eastern European states were revolutionary and whether or not peasant guerilla warfare was a path to revolution .
Cultural Marxists , however , saw the revolutionary subject virtually anywhere but the working class .
Third world peasants , student radicals , the non-aligned movement , racial and ethnic minorities , homosexuals , the mentally ill and transsexuals – all of these and others have been considered the vanguard of cultural revolution around the world by the Cultural Marxists .
The shift of the revolutionary subject @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effectively an attempt to create a political-coalition-meets-religious-cult centered around notions of victimhood .
The primary weapon of the Cultural Marxists is a constant , neverending critique of Western culture and civilization .
It ’ s not a terrible oversimplification to say that the fundamental premise of the “ Critical Theory ” arm of Cultural Marxism is “ when you think about it , isn ’ t everything kind of problematic ?
” Indeed , there is nothing “ deep ” about this theoretical tack , it is simply a case of “ when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything looks like a nail.
” This rhetorical technique has informed and distorted virtually every aspect of Western culture – moving far beyond academia and infecting the mass culture .
Air conditioning is sexist .
Lawns are racist and so are single family homes .
Not wanting to be intimate with someone who is HIV positive contributes to homophobia and the spread of AIDS .
Physical fitness is a fascist impulse and trying to lose weight is a hateful act .
All of these might sound silly and marginal , and in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is important to note how dramatically the culture in the West has shifted since the 1950s – and how dramatically it has shifted even in the last ten years , when Barack Obama still opposed gay marriage and no serious person advocated that grown men who “ identify as women ” should be allowed to share restrooms and locker rooms with pre-pubescent girls .
The other important takeaway from this is that the proponents of Cultural Marxism can find a way to tie virtually any topic to some imagined “ system of oppression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the appropriate argument .
In the language of the Cultural Marxists , this is known as analyzing “ ruling understandings ” or the dominant ideology of a culture .
Of course , there is a “ dominant ideology ” underpinning this method – the notion that every claim or stance requires careful examination from a critical perspective .
Every belief held by Western civilization for the last 100 , 200 , 500 , 2,000 years is subject to a critical analysis , the goal of which is to “ expose ” the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designed to subjugate and suppress members of the coalition of victims that Cultural Marxism seeks to assemble in its war against Western civilization .
Far from being a neutral form of analysis , Cultural Marxism starts with the assumption that every aspect of Western civilization is some kind of a conspiracy ( conscious or otherwise ) to keep a certain group of people in their place .
This creates what Victor Davis Hansen has called a “ subjective righteousness.
” There is no place for individual responsibility for good or for ill. Rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power .
Those who are judged to have it , by the priests of Wokeness ( effectively a Cultural Marxist framework ) , can do no right .
Those who attack them can do no wrong .
Eternal truths , no matter how self-evident , are not truths at all , but narratives constructed by a ruling elite to perpetuate their own rule .
Absolutely nothing is to be spared from the ruthless line of Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory .
This leads to an inversion of traditional values , where the values @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of years are painted as negative features .
The male desire to protect women from danger becomes “ patriarchy ” and “ paternalism.
” The drive to attain mastery over the self and the environment that almost entirely defines Western culture is repainted as “ authoritarian personality.
” The normal desire for marriage and children becomes “ heteronormativity , ” just one option among many and a bad one at that .
An appreciation for the philosophical and cultural achievements of Western civilization is “ white supremacy , ” an arbitrary system with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ races down .
There is also this process identified by a semi-famous KGB agent , Yuri Bezmenov : • Demoralization : This is whereby people are made to lose faith in their own culture and their institutions .
Society is made to be something that isn ’ t worth fighting for .
• Destabilization : During this phase , the culture and society itself are made unstable .
A situation is created whereby “ anything can happen ” and people simply can not rely upon things to be the same from one day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The manufacturing of a large crisis about which “ something must be done.
” • Normalization : The “ new normal.
” The new way of doing things is normalized through constant propaganda that this is “ just how the world is now.
” All of these ideas are likely familiar to you .
That is because , when considered objectively , Cultural Marxism has been a resounding success in the Western world .
One of the common responses among the left , particularly those on the center-left , is that Cultural Marxism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at the very least , that it has failed to influence culture in any meaningful sense .
It ’ s important to point out that it isn ’ t necessary to prove the existence of Cultural Marxist foot soldiers self-consciously infiltrating our institutions to show that Cultural Marxism has influenced American culture and Western culture more broadly .
It is simply necessary to look at what their aims are and to see if those aims have been met .
The radical transformation of society over the last 60 years and the acceleration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a number of factors , including Cultural Marxism , neoliberalism , the destruction of civil society and the welfare state .
It ’ s worth pointing out the degree to which Cultural Marxism has influenced public discourse in the country and , indeed , the broader West .
In Western Europe , for example , Cultural Marxist dialogue is much more explicit and overt than it is in the United States .
To see the influence of Cultural Marxism , one need look no further than any left online publication .
But it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cultural Marxism in Western universities .
The ideas of Cultural Marxism are hardly the purview of economic , political and cultural elites .
Indeed , they are pushed on just about any college student from the community college level all the way up to the Ivy League .
What ’ s more , there is a strand of Cultural Marxism called critical pedagogy that is all about introducing these concepts to younger and younger children .
Cultural Marxism can be seen in the rise of grievance studies , those areas of “ study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parties within the university .
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The presence of Cultural Marxism in elementary education is a clear-cut example of the long march through the institutions largely being a successful enterprise .
The indoctrination of college students produced generations of college graduates who went on to share these ideas with younger and younger children .
Nowhere more than in public education has the long march through the institutions been more successful .
Séxual education for very young children is one particularly lurid example of Cultural Marxism .
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But as disturbing as this drive is , it is part of a broader trend of trying to indoctrinate children in the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism and its methodology of “ critiquing ” Western civilization .
This process of indoctrinating children has accelerated since the beginning of the riots of summer 2020 .
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” Much of this starts from the supposition that everyone , white children in particular , have “ unconscious biases , ” effectively a form of racial hypnotism whereby people are “ racist ” without knowing it .
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” This is the philosophical basis of “ white guilt ” and “ white privilege ” theory .
Alongside the smearing of all whites as racist , there are attacks on the nuclear family , heterosexuality and biological séx as socially constructed for the purpose of social control and suppression .
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The education system is largely where the rubber meets the road in terms of Cultural Marxism moving from an esoteric academic ideology into something that influences the broader culture .
It is not a mistake that a number of educators have been found among the ranks of the rioters .
Nor is it a mistake that the rioters are disproportionately young and educated .
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Further , there is Cultural Marxism in the mass media .
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Much of the conservative revulsion against the values and ideology pushed by Hollywood is in fact a bristling at Cultural Marxist propaganda .
Detailing each and every example of this would take an entire book , but we ’ re sure that you can think of some “ favorite ” examples of your own off the top of your head .
When this is understood , it ’ s easy to become discouraged and defeated with regard to the future of the West .
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There are no easy answers with regard to how to begin reversing the course and , thanks to the pervasive influence of Cultural Marxism in our education system , they have largely accomplished their aims of a “ long march through the institutions.
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To take an example of low-hanging fruit , America , the West and white people did not invent slavery , however , they did more to eradicate it from the face of the earth than anyone else .
Mental gymnastics are often required to argue against even the most basic refutations of Cultural Marxism and such mental gymnastics often expose the proponents of Cultural Marxism as uneducated , unprincipled or just plain wrong .
Finally , reject political guilt .
Those who push guilt do so in bad faith as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of fair play .
If the West is responsible for slavery and genocide – which , in limited cases it is , but it is by no means unique in this regard – it is also responsible for vaccines , sanitation and the massive decline in child mortality rates .
You are not individually responsible for either the great moral crimes of Western history , nor its great technological successes .
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You may have heard the terms “Cultural Marxism,” “Critical Theory” or “Frankfurt School” bandied about. And while you might have an intuitive approximation of what these terms mean for America in the 21st century, there’s a good chance that you don’t know much about the deep theory, where the ideology comes from and what it has planned for America – and the world.
The underlying theory here is a variant of Marxism, pioneered by early-20th-century Italian Marxist politician and linguist Antonio Gramsci. Gramscian Marxism is a radical departure from Classical Marxism. One does not need to endorse the Classical Marxism of Marx, Engels and others to appreciate the significant differences between the two. He is easily the most influential thinker that you have never heard of.
Whereas Classical Marxism located what has been called “the revolutionary subject” (the people who will overthrow capitalism and usher in socialism) within the broad working class, primarily in what is now the First World, Gramscism takes a very different approach. This approach underpins most of the social unrest that is gripping America and the West today. In a sense, we are living through the endgame of a Gramscian revolution.
There are two important diversions that Gramscism has from more traditional Marxist thought: First, that economics was the base of culture and politics. Second, philosophical materialism in the Marxist sense where reality is effectively formed by the means of economic production.
For Gramsci, culture was more important than either economics or politics. This was what needed to be changed for there to be a revolution. As such, the weapon to be used for revolution was not the economic might of an organized working class, but a “long march through the institutions” (a phrase actually coined by German Marxist Rudi Dutschke), whereby every institution in the West would be subverted through penetration and infiltration.
Throughout this article, we will use the term “Cultural Marxism” as a catchall to refer to this phenomenon, because it is the most all-encompassing and does not limit us to discussing any one specific variation (Gramsci, the Frankfurt School or what have you). Finally, we should briefly mention that, the claims of Dr. Jordan Peterson notwithstanding, Cultural Marxism is ideologically distinct from postmodernism and deconstruction, both of which are hostile toward Marxism. We will not touch on either postmodernism or deconstruction in this article, though they certainly have been influential on the international left.
The Origins of Cultural Marxism
There is a tiny kernel of Cultural Marxism within Classical Marxism. Namely, that Marx himself was obsessed with the kinds of detailed critiques that later came to characterize Cultural Marxism – for example, The Critique of the Gotha Program, Anti-Dühring (which is actually by Engels), Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, and A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. This is perhaps best exemplified by the famous remark in Theses on Feuerbach that “philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
Antonio Gramsci, however, seems to be the best place to locate the genesis of Cultural Marxism proper. Gramsci was the son of an Albano-Sardinian low-ranking government official. Without engaging in too much psychoanalyzing, it is probably not a coincidence that the son of a low-ranking civil servant was able to see the power that low-ranking bureaucrats would have if all of them were guided by the proper ideology.
Gramsci attended the University of Turin where he studied linguistics – not philosophy or economics. Health and financial problems led him to leave his studies prematurely, shortly after he joined the Italian Socialist Party. In this period, as well as the period immediately following the Russian Revolution, Gramsci was a fairly standard Communist, though he did occasionally have disagreements with the party line, none of which are relevant to the development of Cultural Marxism. Beginning in 1924, he was the head of the Italian Communist Party. For this, he was arrested by the Fascist government in 1926, and sentenced to 20 years in prison under newly enacted emergency laws. He died in prison on April 27, 1937, at the age of 46, due to a number of untreated health problems.
It was in prison that Gramsci began formulating the core of his theory, which would later form the core of leftist thought throughout the West. In the Prison Notebooks, he broke from Classical Marxism, formulating a new and largely distinct ideology:
Cultural hegemony is a more important factor in maintaining capitalism than economic or political hegemony.
Cultural and social education of workers must be performed to create a class of worker-intellectuals capable of combating capitalism.
Civil society is distinct from political society. The latter rules through domination and coercion, whereas the former rules through normalization and consent.
A rejection of materialism (the primacy of the material world) in favor of a semi-mystical view of history, as well as a greater degree of cultural relativism.
Further critiques of economic determinism (the notion that economics is the primary driver of human history and civilization) and philosophical materialism (the philosophical claim that the material world is either the only reality or the most important one).
Later theorists, including the famous Frankfurt School, which introduced elements of Freudian psychoanalysis, antipositivism (the notion that human society cannot be studied using the scientific method) and existentialism, a philosophical movement that posits that “being determines consciousness” and sees humanity as necessarily hemmed in by a variety of forces beyond their control.
There has been an attempt to smear the identification of the Frankfurt School and similar currents as Cultural Marxism as an expression of anti-Semitism and (of course) a “conspiracy theory.” While there are certainly anti-Semites who talk about Cultural Marxism, they often do so from the perspective of an obsession with the alleged “Jewish” nature of the intellectual tendency. We reject both the characterization of Cultural Marxism as somehow “Jewish” as well as the notion that its existence is a “conspiracy theory.” Nor do we propose that there is some centralized ideological cabal directing the contemporary left from a Cultural Marxist perspective. It is simply that these ideas have become fashionable among the left over the last 50 or so years.
Whatever one seeks to label the modern ideological underpinnings of the left, it is clear that it has its foundation in the ideas articulated by Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and their intellectual descendents such as Rudi Dutschke and others.
Gramsci’s Children: The Frankfurt School
People often refer to the Frankfurt School as some kind of nebulous ideological current. In fact, it was a discrete group of scholars working together at a specific period of time. While they shared many assumptions and conclusions, they were not entirely homogeneous, mostly in terms of their focus of study.
The Frankfurt School was, in fact, the Institute for Social Research, an adjunct facility of the Goethe University Frankfurt. It was the first fully Marxist research institution at a German university and it was funded through the generosity of well-to-do scion of an Argentine grain merchant, Felix Weil. The Frankfurt School is marked by an interdisciplinary approach. Rather than studying art, culture, politics and philosophy, they studied the interplay between them all from a Marxist perspective.
During the interwar period, the Institute was moved first to Vienna and then to New York City, where they joined Columbia University, to avoid the rise of fascism in Europe.
György Lukács and Reification
The first important figure for our purposes to come out of the Frankfurt School is György Lukács, the son of a wealthy Hungarian investment banker. He is frequently published under the name Georg Lukács. Lukács was no armchair theorist: He was a leading light in the Hungarian Revolution of 1917, as well as one of the leading theoreticians of the Hungarian Red Terror during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he had a falling out with the international leadership of Communism. He later went to the Soviet Union, where he was detained and internally exiled. He returned to Hungary in 1945. His relationship with Stalinism is ambiguous and a hotly debated topic among historians, but he was the primary instrument by which the Hungarian Writers’ Union was purged.
His primary contribution to Cultural Marxism is reification, the notion that everything becomes an object under capitalism and that people under capitalism are more like things than human beings. He also said that Marxism would still be valid if it were proved to be false, because it is a methodology of social transformation above all else.
Herbert Marcuse and Repressive Tolerance
Another important figure in the development of Cultural Marxism is Herbert Marcuse. He is often referred to as “the Father of the New Left.” It is potentially worth noting that he worked for the Office of Strategic Services, which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Like Lukács, Marcuse had direct experience in revolutionary movements in postwar Europe. He was a participant in the Spartacist Uprising in Germany, which was an abortive attempt at forming a Soviet-style government in that country. Curiously, some of his work in the late 1920s and early 1930s was a collaboration with Martin Heidegger, who later became the sort of unofficial philosopher of the Nazi regime in Germany. A number of radicals have cited Marcuse as a major influence, including Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman and Rudi Dutschke.
Marcuse’s most important contribution as far as we are concerned is the notion of “repressive tolerance.” In his A Critique of Pure Tolerance, Marcuse argues for something that will be familiar to readers of this website: Tolerance should only be applied to left-wing groups and ideas, while right-wing groups and ideas should be mercilessly suppressed. Specifically, he advocated for “withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or that oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.”
Marcuse is perhaps the most influential of the Frankfurt School thinkers in the United States. Anytime you hear a leftist explain why tolerance actually means intolerance, they’re channeling Marcuse.
Max Horkheimer and Critical Theory
Finally, there is Max Horkheimer. The son of a wealthy Orthodox Jewish family, Horkheimer’s father owned a series of successful textile mills in Stuttgart. He was drafted at the beginning of the First World War, but was rejected on medical grounds and then enrolled in Munich University. By 1926, he was in Frankfurt, and by 1930, he was a professor of philosophy at Frankfurt University. When the Institute for Social Research directorship became vacant, Horkheimer was elected to this position thanks to a mysterious endowment made by an anonymous wealthy businessman.
It was under Horkheimer’s watch that the Frankfurt School’s raison d’être became fusing the ideas of Karl Marx with those of Sigmund Freud. He was the father of Critical Theory, which is less a “theory” than it is a rhetorical technique of viewing everything – except, of course, Critical Theory – through a critical lens and an eye toward discrediting social institutions. Horkheiumer curiously (though perhaps not surprisingly) arrived at Critical Theory while appraising his own role as the scion of a bourgeois family who was ostensibly a proponent of proletarian revolution.
Perhaps the most didactically “Critical Theory” work of Horkheimer is Dialectic of Enlightenment. Among other things, it argues that popular, mass culture is a sort of mechanized and industrialized means by which authoritarian control is maintained over the broad mass of Westerners.
There are other figures in the Frankfurt School, however to catalog each and every one would make for a much longer text. We present the above three as exemplars of the intellectual tendency and a solid basis for understanding it.
The Long March Through the Institutions
While it is often attributed to Gramsci – and in a sense, he is the godfather of the notion – the “long march through the institutions” was, as stated above, a phrase coined by Rudi Dutschke, a German Communist activist. The phrase itself is a nod to the “Long March” of the Chinese Communists.
The long march represents another significant shift in thought away from Classical Marxism. In Classical Marxist thought, the state is seen as an instrument of class oppression, which can be conquered and used by the proletariat as a weapon against the bourgeoisie. Classical Marxists did not seek to occupy the existing state and leverage it for their own purposes. Rather, the Classical Marxists believed it was necessary to destroy the instruments of the bourgeois state and construct a proletarian state in its place.
Some key concepts underlying this theory: First, the state is an instrument of class domination and, as such, is fundamentally based on economics or what Marx called the infrastructure. Everything else – culture, religion, art, politics – was superstructure or something built on top of the class-based, economic structure.
What’s more, “class” is not defined in relative terms, such as how much income one makes or even how much one owns, but rather on the relationship to production. A poor farmer was probably worse off than an urban worker, but was not a proletarian because he owned the means of production, even if these means were meager.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was, in every meaningful sense, a Marxist revolution. A parallel state based on participatory workers’ organizations was led by a self-consciously revolutionary party to topple the existing state and erect a new one in its place. Indeed, Lenin acted on clear definitions from Marx about what constituted “the state”: “armed bodies of men,” that is to say, police, courts, prisons and the military. The Bolsheviks did not simply take the existing “armed bodies of men” and use them for their own purposes. Nor did the Communists of Eastern Europe. They destroyed existing institutions and replaced them with their own.
The bottom line of the difference between Classical Marxism and Cultural Marxism is that the latter sees the state as effectively neutral – something that can be taken over and used for its own purposes – while the former does not. Cultural Marxism is interested not in revolution in the classical 19th-century sense of throwing up barricades, toppling the monarchy and setting up guillotines. Its interests lie in cultural transformations, after which other transformations (political and economic) can take place.
The long march through the institutions is in many ways exactly what it sounded like. Proponents of Cultural Marxism were expected to go out there and ingratiate themselves into every aspect of society. Once there, whether this was in bowling leagues or board rooms, they would push their ideology and attempt to transform society. It wasn’t as dramatic or sudden as the revolution espoused by Classical Marxists and their Marxist-Leninist children, but it was considered both more effective and, more to the point, necessary for fundamental transformation of society. Once the cultural institutions had been changed, political and economic transformation could be enacted.
A final note: The change of the “revolutionary subject” is an important topic to consider. Whereas Classical Marxists were quite dogmatic about their belief that it was only the working class who could effect revolution, Cultural Marxists saw the revolutionary subject basically anywhere else, viewing the traditional Western working class as apathetic at best and actively reactionary, bordering on fascistic, at worst. This was not entirely limited to Cultural Marxists – the entire Trotskyist movement split after the Second World War over the question of whether or not the Eastern European states were revolutionary and whether or not peasant guerilla warfare was a path to revolution.
Cultural Marxists, however, saw the revolutionary subject virtually anywhere but the working class. Third world peasants, student radicals, the non-aligned movement, racial and ethnic minorities, homosexuals, the mentally ill and transsexuals – all of these and others have been considered the vanguard of cultural revolution around the world by the Cultural Marxists. The shift of the revolutionary subject from workers to virtually everyone else is effectively an attempt to create a political-coalition-meets-religious-cult centered around notions of victimhood.
The Weaponization of Critique
The primary weapon of the Cultural Marxists is a constant, neverending critique of Western culture and civilization. It’s not a terrible oversimplification to say that the fundamental premise of the “Critical Theory” arm of Cultural Marxism is “when you think about it, isn’t everything kind of problematic?”
Indeed, there is nothing “deep” about this theoretical tack, it is simply a case of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This rhetorical technique has informed and distorted virtually every aspect of Western culture – moving far beyond academia and infecting the mass culture. Air conditioning is sexist. Lawns are racist and so are single family homes. Not wanting to be intimate with someone who is HIV positive contributes to homophobia and the spread of AIDS. Physical fitness is a fascist impulse and trying to lose weight is a hateful act.
All of these might sound silly and marginal, and in a sense they are. However, it is important to note how dramatically the culture in the West has shifted since the 1950s – and how dramatically it has shifted even in the last ten years, when Barack Obama still opposed gay marriage and no serious person advocated that grown men who “identify as women” should be allowed to share restrooms and locker rooms with pre-pubescent girls. The other important takeaway from this is that the proponents of Cultural Marxism can find a way to tie virtually any topic to some imagined “system of oppression,” then fill in the blanks with the appropriate argument.
In the language of the Cultural Marxists, this is known as analyzing “ruling understandings” or the dominant ideology of a culture. Of course, there is a “dominant ideology” underpinning this method – the notion that every claim or stance requires careful examination from a critical perspective. Every belief held by Western civilization for the last 100, 200, 500, 2,000 years is subject to a critical analysis, the goal of which is to “expose” the belief as nothing more than a weapon designed to subjugate and suppress members of the coalition of victims that Cultural Marxism seeks to assemble in its war against Western civilization.
Far from being a neutral form of analysis, Cultural Marxism starts with the assumption that every aspect of Western civilization is some kind of a conspiracy (conscious or otherwise) to keep a certain group of people in their place. This creates what Victor Davis Hansen has called a “subjective righteousness.” There is no place for individual responsibility for good or for ill. Rather, there is only the analysis of power. Those who are judged to have it, by the priests of Wokeness (effectively a Cultural Marxist framework), can do no right. Those who attack them can do no wrong.
Eternal truths, no matter how self-evident, are not truths at all, but narratives constructed by a ruling elite to perpetuate their own rule. Absolutely nothing is to be spared from the ruthless line of Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory. This leads to an inversion of traditional values, where the values that have served Western civilization for thousands of years are painted as negative features. The male desire to protect women from danger becomes “patriarchy” and “paternalism.” The drive to attain mastery over the self and the environment that almost entirely defines Western culture is repainted as “authoritarian personality.” The normal desire for marriage and children becomes “heteronormativity,” just one option among many and a bad one at that. An appreciation for the philosophical and cultural achievements of Western civilization is “white supremacy,” an arbitrary system with no goal other than to keep other races down.
There is also this process identified by a semi-famous KGB agent, Yuri Bezmenov:
Demoralization: This is whereby people are made to lose faith in their own culture and their institutions. Society is made to be something that isn’t worth fighting for.
This is whereby people are made to lose faith in their own culture and their institutions. Society is made to be something that isn’t worth fighting for. Destabilization: During this phase, the culture and society itself are made unstable. A situation is created whereby “anything can happen” and people simply cannot rely upon things to be the same from one day to the next.
During this phase, the culture and society itself are made unstable. A situation is created whereby “anything can happen” and people simply cannot rely upon things to be the same from one day to the next. Crisis: The manufacturing of a large crisis about which “something must be done.”
The manufacturing of a large crisis about which “something must be done.” Normalization: The “new normal.” The new way of doing things is normalized through constant propaganda that this is “just how the world is now.”
All of these ideas are likely familiar to you. That is because, when considered objectively, Cultural Marxism has been a resounding success in the Western world.
Is Cultural Marxism a Real Threat?
One of the common responses among the left, particularly those on the center-left, is that Cultural Marxism isn’t a real thing or, at the very least, that it has failed to influence culture in any meaningful sense. It’s important to point out that it isn’t necessary to prove the existence of Cultural Marxist foot soldiers self-consciously infiltrating our institutions to show that Cultural Marxism has influenced American culture and Western culture more broadly. It is simply necessary to look at what their aims are and to see if those aims have been met.
The radical transformation of society over the last 60 years and the acceleration of this transformation can be attributed to a number of factors, including Cultural Marxism, neoliberalism, the destruction of civil society and the welfare state. It’s worth pointing out the degree to which Cultural Marxism has influenced public discourse in the country and, indeed, the broader West. In Western Europe, for example, Cultural Marxist dialogue is much more explicit and overt than it is in the United States.
To see the influence of Cultural Marxism, one need look no further than any left online publication. But it’s worth identifying the importance of Cultural Marxism in Western universities. The ideas of Cultural Marxism are hardly the purview of economic, political and cultural elites. Indeed, they are pushed on just about any college student from the community college level all the way up to the Ivy League. What’s more, there is a strand of Cultural Marxism called critical pedagogy that is all about introducing these concepts to younger and younger children.
Cultural Marxism can be seen in the rise of grievance studies, those areas of “study” which are little more than political parties within the university. This includes ersatz academic disciplines such as women’s studies, African-American studies, “queer studies,” and even whiteness studies – the last of which, unlike the studies that precede it, is about pillorying and villainizing whites rather than a sort of narcissistic view at their own history. The degrees granted by these disciplines are, of course, totally useless, leading to a mass of young people who are woefully unprepared to enter the job market while simultaneously saddled with massive amounts of debt. Such people are naturally easy pickings for leftist movements seeking to destroy society.
The presence of Cultural Marxism in elementary education is a clear-cut example of the long march through the institutions largely being a successful enterprise. The indoctrination of college students produced generations of college graduates who went on to share these ideas with younger and younger children. Nowhere more than in public education has the long march through the institutions been more successful.
Séxual education for very young children is one particularly lurid example of Cultural Marxism. Indeed, teaching children about séx has been a significant issue for doctrinaire Cultural Marxists. But as disturbing as this drive is, it is part of a broader trend of trying to indoctrinate children in the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism and its methodology of “critiquing” Western civilization.
This process of indoctrinating children has accelerated since the beginning of the riots of summer 2020. The National Education Association, one of the most powerful teachers unions in the United States, has a handy page for teachers to get their “education justice” resources from. The NEA website approvingly links to a website that proudly declares itself globalist, “queer affirming,” “trans affirming” and “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
Much of this starts from the supposition that everyone, white children in particular, have “unconscious biases,” effectively a form of racial hypnotism whereby people are “racist” without knowing it. Indeed, even the definition of “racism” has been shifted from what is a common sense definition shared by most people to an esoteric one whereby all whites – including babies – are “racist.” This is the philosophical basis of “white guilt” and “white privilege” theory.
Alongside the smearing of all whites as racist, there are attacks on the nuclear family, heterosexuality and biological séx as socially constructed for the purpose of social control and suppression. This might sound like something that will only be taught in schools in California, however, it is important to note that because of the lucrative California textbook market – to say nothing of the far-left nature of the teachers’ unions in the United States – that what children in California are being taught today, children in Kansas will be taught tomorrow.
The education system is largely where the rubber meets the road in terms of Cultural Marxism moving from an esoteric academic ideology into something that influences the broader culture. It is not a mistake that a number of educators have been found among the ranks of the rioters. Nor is it a mistake that the rioters are disproportionately young and educated. They have been primed for this by 12 years of public education and another four at the university level – teaching them that Western civilization is an evil construct designed by white heterosexual men for the purpose of enslaving everyone else.
Further, there is Cultural Marxism in the mass media. After all, when one combines Gramsci’s analysis of the importance of culture and Horkheimer’s claims about the controlling nature of the mass media with the long march through the institutions strategy, it makes sense that Cultural Marxists, conscious or otherwise, would seek to infect mass culture with an eye toward subverting traditional Western ideas and replacing them with Cultural Marxist dogma. Much of the conservative revulsion against the values and ideology pushed by Hollywood is in fact a bristling at Cultural Marxist propaganda. Detailing each and every example of this would take an entire book, but we’re sure that you can think of some “favorite” examples of your own off the top of your head.
When this is understood, it’s easy to become discouraged and defeated with regard to the future of the West. There are literally multiple generations of Westerners who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the basics of Cultural Marxism through the education system, that they have the same relationship to this world view as a fish within water. There are no easy answers with regard to how to begin reversing the course and, thanks to the pervasive influence of Cultural Marxism in our education system, they have largely accomplished their aims of a “long march through the institutions.” Virtually every aspect of society – except for police and their unions – has become dominated by Cultural Marxists, witting or otherwise.
While we can’t propose any sweeping solutions here, it is worth noting that the first step toward combating this ideological and cultural menace is being able to identify it, understand it and, above all, call it out whenever it is seen in action. Much like the long march through the institutions, this might not be a sexy “one-and-done” type of solution, but it might well be the only weapon that we have against them.
An important part of combating Cultural Marxism is simply studying social history and the history of ideas. To take an example of low-hanging fruit, America, the West and white people did not invent slavery, however, they did more to eradicate it from the face of the earth than anyone else. Mental gymnastics are often required to argue against even the most basic refutations of Cultural Marxism and such mental gymnastics often expose the proponents of Cultural Marxism as uneducated, unprincipled or just plain wrong.
Finally, reject political guilt. Those who push guilt do so in bad faith as a form of weaponizing the Western sense of fair play. If the West is responsible for slavery and genocide – which, in limited cases it is, but it is by no means unique in this regard – it is also responsible for vaccines, sanitation and the massive decline in child mortality rates. You are not individually responsible for either the great moral crimes of Western history, nor its great technological successes. The correct answer is a nuanced picture that takes the good with the bad and sees Western civilization as a constant work in progress, rather than a static conspiracy designed to rob everyone but “old, rich, white men” of their due.
Written by Sam Jacobs Article posted with permission from Ammo.com


thewashingtonstandard--2020-10-07--Now They’re Blaming ‘White Christians’ For The Wildfires

California , Oregon and Washington are burning – and it ’ s all the fault of “ white Christians.
” So says a professor at Oregon State University because “ white Christians ” are “ science-deniers ” who don ’ t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming .
CampusReform.com reports ( Oct. 2 ) that Susan Shaw , professor of Women , Gender , and Sexuality studies at Oregon State University claims ( as do many on the left ) , “ the intensity and scope of these fires are a result of climate change.
” She notes , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have embraced denial of climate science.
” ( A colleague responds : “ What a crock .
We have ‘ denied ’ climate ‘ science ’ while she undoubtedly believes that biological sex is meaningless.
” ) Meanwhile , Shaw adds , “ The disturbing link between white evangelical support for Trump and disregard for climate change that disproportionately affects poor people of color around the world should probably not be all that surprising .
… White evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump overwhelmingly , even though the Trump administration has tried to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regulations.
” The issue of wildfires vis-à-vis climate change came up during the presidential debate last week .
Are these fires caused by man-made global warming or by misguided forestry practices ?
Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump about the fires , saying , “ state officials there blamed the fires on climate change .
… what do you believe about the science of climate change and what will you do in the next four years to confront it ?
” The president responded , “ I want crystal clean water and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
… As far as the fires are concerned , you need forest management .
In addition to everything else , the forest floors are loaded up with trees , dead trees that are years old and they ’ re like tinder and leaves and everything else .
You drop a cigarette in there the whole forest burns down .
You ’ ve got to have forest management.
” This controversy is nothing new .
A few years ago , I spoke with Jarrett Stepman of the Heritage Foundation on my radio show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used to do a lot more clearing of the forest , a lot more actual forest management , traditional practices to keep the forest under control.
” But not so today .
Ironically , it has been laws pushed by environmental activists that many say have made the situation worse .
For a piece he wrote for the Heritage ’ s Daily Signal , Stepman quotes Rep. Tom McClintock , R-Calif. : “ Forty-five years ago , we began imposing laws that have made the management of our forests all but impossible .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ vivid boundaries between the young , healthy , growing forests managed by state , local and private landholders , and the choked , dying , or burned federal forests , ” McClintock added , “ The laws of the past 45 years have not only failed to protect the forest environment – they have done immeasurable harm to our forests.
” How so ?
These 1970s laws , such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act , according to the congressman , “ have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible.
” Meanwhile , is climate change responsible for the ongoing disasters in nature in general ?
Recently , I spoke with David Horowitz , the former Communist turned conservative firebrand and author of the book , “ Dark Agenda : The War to Destroy Christian America .
” When I asked him about climate change , he told me , “ I ’ m 81 years old , so I ’ ve watched this for many years .
Every year the Mississippi River overflows and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Tornadoes sweep through Oklahoma .
… In Florida , there are hurricanes .
… Can ’ t do anything about it , but we ’ re going to control the climate of the planet ?
” He called climate change “ a joke.
” In reference to these catastrophes in nature , Dr. E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation , points out , “ These tragedies have happened all through human history ; this is not anything new .
We should certainly have compassion for those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with help to those who are hurt by those things , but it doesn ’ t do anybody any good to blame it on global warming .
As a matter of fact , if anything , what folks want us to do to fight global warming , which is essentially to turn away from fossil fuels , is going to diminish economic growth .
It will prolong poverty , and the best protection you have against any kind of weather emergency – hurricanes , tornadoes , floods , droughts , anything else – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home , to have reliable electricity , things like that.
” So , rather than causing these disasters , the Christians ( white and otherwise ) are helping the survivors through them .
We see that all the time with the Salvation Army or Samaritan ’ s Purse .
Meanwhile , more common-sense measures might vastly reduce fires on the West Coast , as opposed to scapegoating Christians for denying the politically correct version of “ climate change .
”

California, Oregon and Washington are burning – and it’s all the fault of “white Christians.” So says a professor at Oregon State University because “white Christians” are “science-deniers” who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming.
CampusReform.com reports (Oct. 2) that Susan Shaw, professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Oregon State University claims (as do many on the left), “the intensity and scope of these fires are a result of climate change.” She notes, “many Christians, especially white Christians, have embraced denial of climate science.” (A colleague responds: “What a crock. We have ‘denied’ climate ‘science’ while she undoubtedly believes that biological sex is meaningless.”)
Meanwhile, Shaw adds, “The disturbing link between white evangelical support for Trump and disregard for climate change that disproportionately affects poor people of color around the world should probably not be all that surprising. … White evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump overwhelmingly, even though the Trump administration has tried to roll back more than 100 environmental protection regulations.”
The issue of wildfires vis-à-vis climate change came up during the presidential debate last week. Are these fires caused by man-made global warming or by misguided forestry practices?
Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump about the fires, saying, “state officials there blamed the fires on climate change. … what do you believe about the science of climate change and what will you do in the next four years to confront it?”
The president responded, “I want crystal clean water and air. I want beautiful clean air. … As far as the fires are concerned, you need forest management. In addition to everything else, the forest floors are loaded up with trees, dead trees that are years old and they’re like tinder and leaves and everything else. You drop a cigarette in there the whole forest burns down. You’ve got to have forest management.”
This controversy is nothing new. A few years ago, I spoke with Jarrett Stepman of the Heritage Foundation on my radio show. He told me, “We used to do a lot more clearing of the forest, a lot more actual forest management, traditional practices to keep the forest under control.” But not so today. Ironically, it has been laws pushed by environmental activists that many say have made the situation worse.
For a piece he wrote for the Heritage’s Daily Signal, Stepman quotes Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.: “Forty-five years ago, we began imposing laws that have made the management of our forests all but impossible. … Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local and private landholders, and the choked, dying, or burned federal forests,”
McClintock added, “The laws of the past 45 years have not only failed to protect the forest environment – they have done immeasurable harm to our forests.” How so? These 1970s laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, according to the congressman, “have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and cost-prohibitive restrictions and requirements that have made the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible.”
Meanwhile, is climate change responsible for the ongoing disasters in nature in general?
Recently, I spoke with David Horowitz , the former Communist turned conservative firebrand and author of the book, “Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America .” When I asked him about climate change, he told me, “I’m 81 years old, so I’ve watched this for many years. Every year the Mississippi River overflows and destroys houses, livelihoods, kills people. Tornadoes sweep through Oklahoma. … In Florida, there are hurricanes. … Can’t do anything about it, but we’re going to control the climate of the planet?” He called climate change “a joke.”
In reference to these catastrophes in nature, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, points out, “These tragedies have happened all through human history; this is not anything new. We should certainly have compassion for those who are hurt. We should respond with help to those who are hurt by those things, but it doesn’t do anybody any good to blame it on global warming. As a matter of fact, if anything, what folks want us to do to fight global warming, which is essentially to turn away from fossil fuels, is going to diminish economic growth. It will prolong poverty, and the best protection you have against any kind of weather emergency – hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, anything else – is the ability to build a solid home, to have reliable electricity, things like that.”
So, rather than causing these disasters, the Christians (white and otherwise) are helping the survivors through them. We see that all the time with the Salvation Army or Samaritan’s Purse. Meanwhile, more common-sense measures might vastly reduce fires on the West Coast, as opposed to scapegoating Christians for denying the politically correct version of “climate change.”
Article posted with permission from Jerry Newcombe


thewashingtonstandard--2020-10-07--ITALY: Salvini Ally Threatened with Rape After Opposing Mosque

There is no media coverage , no outrage , no pushback .
The takeaway ?
Respect Islam or risk rape or death … .
A female colleague from populist Senator Matteo Salvini ’ s League has received death and rape threats , many allegedly from migrants , after opposing the construction of a temporary mosque .
Silvia Sardone , who serves in the European Parliament for the League , received a torrent of threats after coming out against a proposal to build a temporary mosque in the Via Novara area of the city of Milan .
Social media posts and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threatened with being set on fire , according to screenshots seen by Italian newspaper Il Giornale .
Another person is said to have told the politician : “ We foreigners will come into your house and rape you.
” According to Ms Sardone , many of the threats came from foreigners .
She said they “ highlight , once again , that there is a latent hatred towards those who dare to demand rules , controls , security on the issue of mosques ” .
“ It will not be these threats of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from denouncing the [ Democratic Party ’ s ] submission to certain Islamic communities and the risks to the city , ” she said .
“ I have already instructed my lawyer to denounce this scum .
I will continue to stand by citizens who are calling for the closure of illegal mosques , having listened for years to the promises of Mayor Sala and then be disappointed , ” she added .
The Democratic Party ( PD ) in Milan has been alleged to have close ties with the local Muslim community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mosque of Segrate on the outskirts of the city urged local Muslims to vote for the PD .
As Breitbart London reported at the time , the mosque told believers to vote for the PD due to the party ’ s support for the policy of birthright citizenship or jus soli .
It was not the only mosque to tell Muslims to vote for left-wing parties that year .
Sardone is not the only member of the League to receive death threats .
Matteo Salvini himself has been on the receiving end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by far-left extremists .

There is no media coverage, no outrage, no pushback. The takeaway? Respect Islam or risk rape or death ….
Salvini Ally Threatened with Rape After Opposing Mosque
A female colleague from populist Senator Matteo Salvini’s League has received death and rape threats, many allegedly from migrants, after opposing the construction of a temporary mosque.
By: Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart News, October 5, 2020:
Silvia Sardone, who serves in the European Parliament for the League, received a torrent of threats after coming out against a proposal to build a temporary mosque in the Via Novara area of the city of Milan.
Social media posts and messaging apps allegedly show the League MEP threatened with being set on fire, according to screenshots seen by Italian newspaper Il Giornale. Another person is said to have told the politician: “We foreigners will come into your house and rape you.”
According to Ms Sardone, many of the threats came from foreigners. She said they “highlight, once again, that there is a latent hatred towards those who dare to demand rules, controls, security on the issue of mosques”.
“It will not be these threats of rape or death that will stop me from denouncing the [Democratic Party’s] submission to certain Islamic communities and the risks to the city,” she said.
“I have already instructed my lawyer to denounce this scum. I will continue to stand by citizens who are calling for the closure of illegal mosques, having listened for years to the promises of Mayor Sala and then be disappointed,” she added.
Milan Mosque Urges Muslims to Vote for Italian Left-Wing Parties in Favour of ‘Birthplace Citizenship’ https://t.co/2JKeljDN4g — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 1, 2018
The Democratic Party (PD) in Milan has been alleged to have close ties with the local Muslim community for years. In 2018, the Mosque of Segrate on the outskirts of the city urged local Muslims to vote for the PD.
As Breitbart London reported at the time, the mosque told believers to vote for the PD due to the party’s support for the policy of birthright citizenship or jus soli. It was not the only mosque to tell Muslims to vote for left-wing parties that year.
Sardone is not the only member of the League to receive death threats. Matteo Salvini himself has been on the receiving end of many threats including calls for his assassination by far-left extremists.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-10-08--CEO of Haliburton International Foods, Ian Charles Schenkel, Arrested For Child Sex Trafficking

Newport Beach , CA — Ian Charles Schenkel , 59 , is the CEO of Haliburton International Foods , a global food distribution company worth billions .
This week , Schenkel was arrested on accusations that he engaged in child prostitution and human trafficking .
A 26-year-old woman is also accused of aiding Schenkel in child trafficking .
According to Newport Beach prosecutors , Schenkel was arrested and faces seven felony and two misdemeanor allegations involving intercourse and lewd acts with two underage victims , according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday Sep. 29 .
He is suspected of abusing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 27 , 2019 and Oct. 8 , 2019 .
Prosecutors also allege that Amanda Emilia Perez , 22 , helped set up the meetings between the millionaire CEO and his victims .
Perez now faces six felony charges for trafficking the underage girls .
According to the OC Register , Newport beach police began investigating after a man reported in October 2019 that his daughter had sexual contact with Schenkel , Orange County District Attorney ’ s officials said in a news release .
The girl told authorities Perez introduced her to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took a portion of the money clients paid to have sex with the teen .
The media is referring to Schenkel ’ s abuse of the two underage girls as “ child prostitution ” which is inaccurate .
Because a child can not consent to sex with an adult , the term child prostitute is as horrific as it is incorrect .
Even in instances in which a child is paid to have sex with an adult , the fact that they are underage , makes them a victim and not a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws vary from state to state , but the two girls who have accused Schenkel of the abuse were far below the age of consent in California , which is 18 .
If Schenkel is convicted on all counts , he faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison and 728 days in county jail .
Perez faces a maximum sentence of 14 years and eight months in state prison if she is similarly convicted on all charges .
Authorities are urging anyone with information about additional potential victims to call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 644-3790 .
This incident highlight the fact that there is an epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse in the land of the free .
According to many experts , child sexual abuse is likely the most prevalent health problem children face with the most serious array of consequences .
It is so rife that it is estimated that about one in 10 children will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday .
This year alone , there will be about 400,000 babies born in the U.S. that will become victims of child @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stop it .
Thousands of child predators are nabbed every year and for every one caught , there are likely 10 others who remain free .
Sadly , police appear to be more interested in kidnapping and caging drug users and dealers than keep children safe .
While child sex trafficking is certainly a problem within the upper echelons of society — as Schenkel ’ s case highlights — these sick people are from all walks of life .
One of the things the victims are told is to report their abuse to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regularly reports , police are oftentimes the worst offenders and even when they are caught committing horrifying acts of abuse , they receive little to no time behind bars .
This is a serious problem , and does not appear to be slowing .
Weekly or more , TFTP reports on police officers who get arrested by fellow cops on charges of everything from trafficking in child pornography to child rape to running child sex trafficking rings .
Some of these officers are low-level cops like Avo Marzwanian , 34 , of LaPlace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with 10 counts of distribution and 20 counts of possession of child pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 along with 15 counts of sex abuse against animals .
Other child predators fill the top position in their department like Anthony “ Tony ” Yocham , who is the police chief in Hamilton , Texas , a town about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth .
Just down the road from where Yocham is the chief of police , TFTP reported on a cop in Dallas , Sr. Cpl .
Daniel Lee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ photos of underage girls to various Google accounts using the City of Dallas internet network .
The list goes on .
Sadly , when TFTP attempts to tell the world about these issues , we are banned , deleted , unpublished , or have our social media accounts throttled — which is happening right now .
One of our staff members was banned from Facebook and our account given a strike for sharing the article below .
Facebook falsely labeled the post as sharing “ nudity.
” We can not appeal and our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a result .
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Newport Beach, CA — Ian Charles Schenkel, 59, is the CEO of Haliburton International Foods, a global food distribution company worth billions. This week, Schenkel was arrested on accusations that he engaged in child prostitution and human trafficking. A 26-year-old woman is also accused of aiding Schenkel in child trafficking.
According to Newport Beach prosecutors, Schenkel was arrested and faces seven felony and two misdemeanor allegations involving intercourse and lewd acts with two underage victims, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday Sep. 29. He is suspected of abusing his victims at least 7 times between Jan. 27, 2019 and Oct. 8, 2019.
Prosecutors also allege that Amanda Emilia Perez, 22, helped set up the meetings between the millionaire CEO and his victims. Perez now faces six felony charges for trafficking the underage girls.
According to the OC Register, Newport beach police began investigating after a man reported in October 2019 that his daughter had sexual contact with Schenkel, Orange County District Attorney’s officials said in a news release. The girl told authorities Perez introduced her to the CEO and other men, then took a portion of the money clients paid to have sex with the teen.
The media is referring to Schenkel’s abuse of the two underage girls as “child prostitution” which is inaccurate. Because a child cannot consent to sex with an adult, the term child prostitute is as horrific as it is incorrect. Even in instances in which a child is paid to have sex with an adult, the fact that they are underage, makes them a victim and not a “prostitute.”
Obviously, age of consent laws vary from state to state, but the two girls who have accused Schenkel of the abuse were far below the age of consent in California, which is 18.
If Schenkel is convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison and 728 days in county jail. Perez faces a maximum sentence of 14 years and eight months in state prison if she is similarly convicted on all charges.
Authorities are urging anyone with information about additional potential victims to call Newport Beach police at (949) 644-3790.
This incident highlight the fact that there is an epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse in the land of the free. According to many experts, child sexual abuse is likely the most prevalent health problem children face with the most serious array of consequences. It is so rife that it is estimated that about one in 10 children will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday.
This year alone, there will be about 400,000 babies born in the U.S. that will become victims of child sexual abuse unless we do something to stop it. Thousands of child predators are nabbed every year and for every one caught, there are likely 10 others who remain free. Sadly, police appear to be more interested in kidnapping and caging drug users and dealers than keep children safe.
While child sex trafficking is certainly a problem within the upper echelons of society — as Schenkel’s case highlights — these sick people are from all walks of life. One of the things the victims are told is to report their abuse to the police. However, as TFTP regularly reports, police are oftentimes the worst offenders and even when they are caught committing horrifying acts of abuse, they receive little to no time behind bars. This is a serious problem, and does not appear to be slowing.
Weekly or more, TFTP reports on police officers who get arrested by fellow cops on charges of everything from trafficking in child pornography to child rape to running child sex trafficking rings. Some of these officers are low-level cops like Avo Marzwanian, 34, of LaPlace, Louisiana who was charged last month with 10 counts of distribution and 20 counts of possession of child pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 along with 15 counts of sex abuse against animals.
Other child predators fill the top position in their department like Anthony “Tony” Yocham, who is the police chief in Hamilton, Texas, a town about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Just down the road from where Yocham is the chief of police, TFTP reported on a cop in Dallas, Sr. Cpl. Daniel Lee Collins who pleaded guilty to uploading sexual photos of underage girls to various Google accounts using the City of Dallas internet network.
The list goes on. Sadly, when TFTP attempts to tell the world about these issues, we are banned, deleted, unpublished, or have our social media accounts throttled — which is happening right now. One of our staff members was banned from Facebook and our account given a strike for sharing the article below. Facebook falsely labeled the post as sharing “nudity.” We cannot appeal and our reach has been diminished by 90 percent as a result.
If you would like to help make sure we stay around in spite of blatant censorship, please consider becoming a member or leaving a one time donation. Thanks.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist