The bright face of American democracy is engulfed in the flames of a long overdue protest. The scenery depicting the land of freedom burned out. Now through the smoke of flaming cars you can see the grotesque police state, the culmination of inequality and other trends with which Washington is demonstrably struggling abroad.
The fire of revolution swept dozens of American cities. Who would have thought that the tragic death of George Floyd would result in riots on a national scale, especially since he was far from the first African American to be the victim of police brutality. He will not be the last either, despite what is happening, but more on that later.
Now I want to pay attention to how suspiciously American protests look like typical color revolutions. The same ones that have been cranked up in different countries with the assistance of American politicians, pro-American organizations and, finally, with American money. What are the riots in Hong Kong. More recently, Washington officials criticized the Chinese authorities for the violent dispersal of “peaceful protesters”. Now we can watch videos made in US cities and showing us the delights of the work of the most “democratic” law enforcement agencies. A police car in Brooklyn flew into the crowd – a great example of this. Is it really karma or any other justice sent from above? Alas, everything is much more prosaic, but from that even more disgusting.
The protests over the murder of George Floyd show us how vile American ruling elites can be. In order to achieve their goals, they are ready to set fire to their own country. Therefore, if it seems to you that in American riots there is something from the Ukrainian Euromaidan, then this does not seem to you at all. However, there are similar and distinctive features in these events.
For example, both Maidan and US protests were endowed with sacred sacrifice. In the first case, it became the so-called “heavenly hundred” – radicals who fell victim to their own “masters”. While some were lured into protests by money, others were prepared to implement a plan of “accelerated surrender” of the government. It was the bloody events of February 20, 2014, when a group of snipers began the notorious executions, became a turning point in Euromaidan.
It’s not hard to guess that in the USA Floyd became a sacred victim. The story of his death could well become one of many. In the end, Breon Taylor, an African-American who was also killed by the police, bursting into her apartment without warning, only after the fact attracted to protests. Incidentally, this occurred on March 13th.
It may seem that there is a difference between Floyd and the “Heavenly Hundred”, because the death of the first was the beginning of the protests, and the executions in Kiev completed the coup. The fact is that both sacred sacrifices are catalysts that were not involved in the peak of tension.
American society, exhausted by coronavirus, quarantine, unemployment, hunger and lack of care, needed a spark. This spark was Floyd. And it could be repaid, but officials refused to bring charges to the murderer, and then, when riots broke out, the armed forces were practically inactive. Protesters were even allowed to burn a police station in Minneapolis! And then everything went in the best traditions of color revolutions: Molotov cocktails, pogroms, clashes with the police and tear gas. Anger was directed through social networks, where all the necessary information was published.
The features of the American revolution are also manifested here. Thus, architects and sponsors of the protests are inside the country, and their purpose is only superficially consistent with the standards of coups. See how Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, desperately grabbed Floyd’s case with his senile fingers, and it’s not just that.
“The time has come for us to seriously look at the unpleasant truth. It’s time to openly deal with a deep, open wound on the body of our country. We need justice in the George Floyd case”, – Biden said.
A flamboyant anti-racist campaign is a great way to hit conservative Donald Trump ratings right before the election. This topic is much more convenient and pliable than the theme of the corona-crisis. You can ramp up Trump for shoals in the fight against the epidemic and its consequences, but where are the guarantees that the Democrats will cope better? The coronavirus is unpredictable, but you can always effectively expel a couple of racist cops from the department. That is why the American elites do not hide and even demonstrate how the security forces disperse the protesters. It doesn’t bother anyone that the methods were launched for which Washington vehemently criticized its “undemocratic” opponents. Much more important is to associate all the horror with Trump.
And here we come to the main question: what will change if a democrat takes the White House? The correct answer is: nothing! Trump or Biden will win – it does not matter. In what is happening, the obsessive slogan is read: “Choose the Democrats, and everything will get better”.
Only this is an illusion. The illusion of a change of power. The illusion created by the two parties, ruling for almost 200 years, as well as the financial elite that stands behind the “elected” officials.
No matter how sorry those who sincerely believe in the success of the protests, the outcome is already a foregone conclusion. The lesson will not be learned, because before us is a typical doomsday. How much morality could be extracted from the film of the same name? One thing was clear: while the poor cut out each other with impunity, the rich locked themselves in their residences and watch while drinking expensive wine. The same thing is happening now in the USA, albeit with amendments to reality.
The elites provoked people to ruin and burn their own cities. Not for equality, but for cheap self-deception. The United States is so free that you can burn a police station! Sounds intriguing. True, no one takes into account that not all Republicans or Trump personally will pay for everything destroyed, but taxpayers.
At the same time, officials with contractors also capitalize part of the funds for personal needs, while the scenery of a free country will be restored.
Eugene Gaman, specially for News Front