We must come together as Americans in support of our core values – that of supporting the right to protest, even in times of crisis, whether BLM or those demonstrating to reopen society. Moreover, saying yes to civil society and public protest requires we say no to rioting and violent mob occupations (such as what has happened in Seattle), and particularly that we root out those who justify violence from the comfort of their tony neighborhoods and calm suburbs. As videos made by grassroots BLM protesters have shown a number of times, protestors have attempted to stop looters, rioters, and vandals. Many of these looters and rioters come from the suburban outskirts not to express solidarity but to have fun in the destruction of communities they then get to leave afterwards. Yet in the pages of activist left and socialist periodicals such as Counter Punch, Jacobin Magazine, Mother Jones, and the Nation, and more, mostly white former hipsters are ranting and raving about riots calling them “uprisings” as if comparing looting one’s neighbors, ransacking Macy’s, or extorting local businesses in Seattle’s Antifa occupied zone,  to those who rose up in slave revolts and rebellions against dictatorship is anything other than an insult to the memory of actual freedom fighters. The less (but still) extreme left-wing media from CNN to the New Republic, the New York Times to even the Atlantic at times, has thrown itself in not with the protestors but with rioters by portraying protestors and looters as one in the same. Those seeking to tear America apart by instigating orgies of violence using the murder of George Floyd as cover will fail. The National Guard, police, 2nd amendment exercising citizen patrols (some even being organized by left wing local leaders), and responsible protesters are working together across differences to protect themselves and their communities. The violence is being caused not because average Americans all of sudden hate their neighbors, but by a confluence of outside ideological agitators and the child like tantrums of a small but dangerous group that pretends looting has anything to do with police reform. Our fellow Americans, black, white, brown, and more, who are defending themselves and their neighbors from those intent on pillaging their businesses and homes because they know that the police cannot be relied on to respond in time are like the Los Angeles Korean community during the LA riots, every day regular people turned into heroes. So too are the 99% of police who are attempting to sort through the vast majority of peaceful protestors to isolate the tiny portion of violent Antifa agent provocateurs who have schlepped from the suburbs, crawled out of their parent’s basements, or slid down their ivory towers to so many urban areas in an attempt to hijack protests and turn them violent for their own twisted destructive aims. Protestors, both armed and unarmed, against government abuse in the form of life destroying shutdowns or police brutality should be lauded and applauded. Protestors of all types are defending our freedoms even when one disagrees with their premise, and are the life blood of America because they are free citizenry asserting their rights to assemble, speech, and dissent from official government mandated policy as they understand it. The violent Antifa occupation of neighborhoods; the rioters burning down stores, cars, buildings, and homes; the Minneapolis cops who murdered George Floyd; and the Louisville Metro Police who executed a no-knock warrant on the wrong home and took the life of Breonna Taylor should all face the full consequences of their actions. America will overcome our present troubles, but in order to do so we must demand an end to the illegitimate use of force both when the state engages in it and when rioters kill innocents and burn cities. We must demand the periodicals of the cloistered left stop justifying and glorifying mob violence, that our streets are taken back from Antifa thugs who would take over more neighborhoods and extort even more communities. We must reaffirm our shared American values and support all peaceful protestors even when we disagree with the substance of their protest.

From: Alexander Solzhenitsyn  To: Mayor Ravi Bhalla Subject: Message for you sir

In George Orwell’s seminal work, “1984,” decades before the rot of Karl Marx worked its way undermining positive minority community action and indoctrinating students in the universities by way of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, speech itself was viewed as a weapon to be wielded by the state.

Behold the monsters rising as reason is decimated into oblivion.

Hoboken has a unique mayor in office during these tumultuous times. Once eager to latch on to the coattails of former governor Chris Christie in his ambition for higher elected office; Ravi Bhalla has pivoted to Establishment HudCo pol after becoming mayor and now arrives in the blink of an eye to embrace the “Defund the Police” plank in the pending Marxist revolution. Read More...

Seeking to elevate his national profile among a radical leftist chorus amid the din of recent riots , Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla publicly came out for the “Defund the Police” effort in Minneapolis.

His tweet yesterday made it abundantly clear, calling the City Council effort there to defund the police a “bold step” for “bold change.”

#Minneapolis took a bold step in reimagining public safety in policing and incarceration.

I stand w/ @lisabendermpls @jeremiah4north @CunninghamMPLS @FletcherMpls @MplsWard9 @annapoetic @CameronAGordon @jeremyschroeder @CMAndrewJohnson Read More...

Hoboken is in the spotlight in New Jersey last Friday hosting the biggest protest statewide in recent days and the entire city has reason to be proud.

First, let’s offer congratulations where first and most deserved:=&0=&

An estimated several thousand people came to Hoboken encouraged by Democrat politicians for the first time in months to go outside during the pandemic with their full approval to protest after George Floyd’s murder appeared on video in Minneapolis last month. Universal condemnation followed and led to the arrest of the police officer most visible, hit with a murder charge. Read More...

Protestors who appear to be mostly out of town students have deviated from the official plan by Mayor Ravi Bhalla to go to Pier A Park. They have split off Sinatra Drive and landed up on Washington St.

Some began filtering off Sixth St. and Washington. A main group continues to move north on Washington St.

Don’t they want to listen to politicians lecture at Pier A? The protestors now continue from Washington St. and south down Hudson St.

Washington & 6th St.  courtesy Giant Videos of the Day Uptown Washington St.

Here’s video from today at Maxwell and Frank Sinatra Drive of a peaceful protest of mostly youths in Hoboken.

The videos comes courtesy of Giant Videos of the Day.

Maxwell Place Park Sinatra Drive  Sinatra Field Rotunda 

The sight at Maxwell Park is one of mostly white youths numbering around 200 and growing as the Black Lives Matter protest arranged by Rutgers students of allies4justice.

There’s not a lot of social distancing going on. On the upside, these youths are in the category of those most statistically safe from acquiring and suffering from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.

Plenty of Hoboken Police are on the scene and although rain is threatening in the forecast, the rally is now proposed to move down Sinatra Drive to Pier A and away from Washington St. where many storefronts are boarded up. Read More...

Hoboken is less than 24 hours before the descent of the pandemic interlopers tomorrow afternoon. As the time draws near, more businesses are boarding up in preparation.

On the plus side, there’s rain scheduled in the forecast tomorrow afternoon. Perhaps that will dampen any bad spirits planning anything other than peaceful activity.

No, the Hoboken Police Department, outside law enforcement nor any resident needs to take a knee. The Mile Square City is already taking it on the chin allowing this during a pandemic as there’s a near lockdown in place. Read More...

Official release from Hoboken Police Chief Kenneth F. Ferrante:

We are facing challenges in law enforcement that we have never seen before. Martin Luther King stated, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”  That quote sits on my desk and I look at it every day that I change my radio battery since becoming Chief in October of 2014. We now have moved onto a phase of civil unrest in our country brought on by the heinous killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the generations of racism in this country that has brought about movements such as Black Lives Matter over the past decade. The officer who was charged with Murder last week, knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while he was handcuffed, including 2 ½ minutes after he lost consciousness.  The conduct of those four officers, in their flat out abuse of a handcuffed black man, who was being arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 bill, which resulted in his death, is conduct that cannot be accepted by any officer in the United States. The other three officers were finally criminally charged a little while ago. The tactic that was used by those officers is not part of any training taught in New Jersey and one that would never be tolerated in Hoboken. Minneapolis has also shown everything NOT to do in policing in the first week after that homicide. Nights of protests that destroyed 170 businesses on Thursday night, most of them burnt to the ground, and included the destruction of their police precinct after it was looted, additionally it showed not one police officer, fire fighter or national guardsman in any video footage. They decided to come in strong with hundreds of State Police and National Guardsman at 7am the following morning when no one was on the street, had one of their first arrests be one of a CNN Black reporter (not his white colleague who was next to him) and then stepped back again the following night and retreated. It is clear that the Minneapolis Police Dept. did not have positive relations with their community and it’s leaders, their elected officials or their media before last week because you see no collaboration whatsoever amongst those groups to help bring peace. We are much better in New Jersey and much better at the Hoboken PD. We have not had a civil suit against any of our officers for excessive force or racial influenced policing in at least over six years. We have not had a criminal complaint against any of our officers for this in the same time period. We strive to be better. I strive to lead our department to police based on a principle of fairness and equality to everyone! We don’t police any groups whatsoever, as I direct our officers to police criminal and disorderly conduct. We aim to de-escalate and start with a calm demeanor, with ensuring that everyone we come across is treated the same. We do not tolerate excessive use of force, and we do not tolerate racially biased policing. My mission statement for the department is that we are to be community sensitive to every crime victim, resident, community leader, government official, member of the media, and our fellow brother and sister officers. We engage in as many community-building events as possible, even by doing that virtually during this pandemic, which has not yet ended. This Friday, we have a planned protest in Hoboken. My command staff and I have worked around the clock since last Friday to ensure that we have a peaceful protest and peaceful day in Hoboken. The burden of the responsibility on me is to ensure that I direct our officers and the other agencies who will be assisting, to make certain we maintain a peaceful march. While we are prepared to work with the organizers for the duration of the event, we are also prepared to attempt to prevent or respond to any negative situation that comes our way. I, as well as all of my officers, have taken an oath to protect and serve, under the authority of the people, and that is exactly what I have done during my tenure and will continue to do Friday and beyond. I always tell our new officers and those being promoted to listen to their oaths as they say it, and to live by that. We support those in New Jersey and Hoboken, as well as those around our nation, who want to protest peacefully against racism and police brutality, and I am committed to doing anything I can to help end racism and improve police-community relations and police tactics. Stay safe, be alert, and watch out for one another, and let’s join to make positive change in our country!