(The Federalist)—If Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships, George Floyd was the convict who lit a thousand fires.
Helen is a myth. In many ways, so is George. Leftist America mythology.
Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody. May 25, 2020 also marked the beginning of a violent revolution — an insurrection, if you will — led by opportunistic Marxists under the banner of Black Lives Matter bent on dismantling the last best hope of earth.
A jury would later convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, of Floyd’s murder. Floyd, who, according to toxicology results, had high levels of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cannabis in his system, repeatedly resisted arrest. He certainly didn’t deserve to die. But the convict with the long rap sheet became a patron saint for a leftist movement preaching chaos in an election-year power grab.
‘Fiery but Mostly Peaceful’
The Marxists, using the usual useful idiots in the accomplice media and the myth of George Floyd, nearly succeeded. Over the course of a very long, hot summer, the leftist revolution tore America and Americans apart in a sustained campaign to vilify law enforcement and subvert the rule of law. “You never want a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama apostle Rahm Emanuel liked to say. So the BLM revolutionaries, with the approval of the “systemic racism”-peddling Democrat Party, got busy laying waste to lives and public and private property — in the perverse name of “social justice.”
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