Beware of Red-Diaper 'Legal Observers'
Michelle Malkin • November 3, 2020
Buckle up. No matter what happens on Election Day, as I’ve warned for months, we are in for a long and wild ride. Over Halloween weekend, businesses in every major city across the country boarded up their windows and police departments prepared for “civil unrest.”
Businesses in cities nationwide boarded up ahead of election day over fears of unrest https://t.co/UsfBTXSCp2 pic.twitter.com/m5ueUjyUY7
— The Hill (@thehill) November 3, 2020
Everywhere I walk in NYC I see shops being boarded up… only one side riots when elections don’t go their way. pic.twitter.com/fHICs8yxVx
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 1, 2020
Shops in San Francisco’s now-joyless shopping destination, Union Square, are boarding up this week in anticipation of opportunistic rio-looting. Some thugs got started early at Coach earlier this week, which was boarded up today. pic.twitter.com/LJteTo1t72
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 30, 2020
CVS in Boston all boarded up in preparation for possible civil unrest after the election. #Election2020 #staysafe pic.twitter.com/d0BzCYIscNI abhor that propagandistic euphemism, don’t you? “Unrest” is when you’ve had a bout of insomnia. If journalism still meant anything in America, every media outlet would call it what it is: violence. And it’s not just random violence but planned political chaos by anti-Trump forces.
— Bailey Allen (@baileyaallen) November 1, 2020
The National Guard is on standby in Chicago. Cleveland cops have opened emergency operations centers. The Denver Police Department (home of the summer stand-down order that led to left-wing mob assaults on my pro-police rallygoers and me) are now establishing a command post for the first time in anticipation of election week anarchy by antifa, Black Lives Matter and affiliated obstructionists.
You will no doubt hear about the “legal observers” being dispatched to document the law enforcement response to “unrest” (a.k.a. violent riots), as well as to monitor polling places for “voter intimidation.” These supposed watchdogs, clad in distinctive lime green hats and vests, are members of the National Lawyers Guild. NLG trainers held online “know your rights” sessions for Suffolk University students in Boston last week. The Delaware-New Jersey chapter of the group helped train about 100 volunteers to be “eyes and ears on the ground” around voting booths.
All summer long, NLG “legal observers” have assisted violent rioters and looters. On social media, antifa-adjacent operatives have credited the group with providing bail or cash cards to left-wing arrestees. Mob leaders advise their minions to write NLG’s chapter phone numbers on their arms as they head out to menace police, Trump supporters and local shopkeepers.
I'm told the NLG has now paid the bail for all seven arrestees. They should be released in the next few hours! Woo!
— Lady Rosie G. Riddle (@PDXRosieRiddle) October 31, 2020
The National Lawyers Guild is the legal arm of antifa. Working within the American legal system, they chip away at it bit by bit with the intention of destroying it. They have a lot of money to keep the war going. pic.twitter.com/74JmetU5Od
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2020
Tried a few times to contact you Andy, the NLG gives these rioters cash cards if they call for bail from NLG and are released on recog. 10% of the bail money goes on the card and given to the rioters in Portland.What the media won’t tell you is that there is nothing neutral or trustworthy about these “legal observers.” The NLG was founded by Communist militants in 1937 who groomed a legion of trained legal agitators to “create change” in “the structure of our at the local, regional, national, and international levels.” In fact, a U.S. House Committee on Internal Security report in 1973 chronicled how the NLG was formed with the assistance of the Comintern and constituted the “foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations and controlled unions.” Its lawyers represented violent Black Panthers and Weather Underground domestic terrorists.
— Ronjonfactotron (@ronjonfactotron) November 1, 2020
As a key policy document of the NLG declared in 1971: “There is no disagreement among us that we are a body of radicals and revolutionaries. We are not simply servants of the movement. We are radicals and revolutionaries who now propose to carry the struggle for social change into our lives and our profession.”
The current generation of red-diaper lawyers carries that same revolutionary torch. Former NLG President Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan celebrated the group’s “80 years of Radical Lawyering in the Age of Trump” and decried the phrase “Make America Great Again” as the “language of imperialism and war.” She bragged about the Guild “being labeled ‘subversive’ by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Modern-day donor organizations funding the NLG include the far-left Ford Foundation, the Benjamin Fund (Code Pink Medea Benjamin’s nonprofit, and Unbound Philanthropy, operated by a George Soros/Open Society Foundations advisory board member, Taryn Higashi.
Among the Guild’s most infamous lawyers: Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 after a jury found her guilty of helping terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman — the murderous Blind Sheik — smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client’s court-ordered isolation.
Among the Guild’s most notorious recent clients: unhinged professor Eric Clanton, who beat Trump supporters with a huge bike lock in 2017.
As the entire constellation of Trump resistance groups ramps up this week, remember that these malefactors with law degrees and their mentors have trained for this moment for upward of eight decades. Their goal is not to protect free speech and election integrity but to stifle the voices and votes of those they smear as “white supremacists” and “oppressors.” We need patriot observers to monitor the “legal observers” running interference for the mob.
Bottom line: The NLG is not on the side of justice. It is unapologetically on the side of revolution.
Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@pro tonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
