We were quick like a bunny back in November when news broke that three Palestinian “students” had been shot in Burlington, Vermont. It became a national story when Biden, Harris, and even the jilted Bernie Sanders (twice left at the Presidential Primary Altar by the DNC) milked the attack for Mic time.
- “President Biden issued a statement declaring that “there is absolutely no place for violence or hate in America.” (says divisive hate-monger Joe)
- Vice President Kamala Harris’ statement bemoaned that “far too many people live with the fear that they could be targeted and attacked based on their beliefs or who they are” (like parents, conservatives, Christians, or cisgender women?).
- “The idea that three young men walking down the street get shot, perhaps because of no other reason than they are Palestinian, is unspeakable,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said.” But I gotta tell you, this is not just a local phenomenon; this is happening all over the country.”
Do you know what else is happening nationwide, Senator Sanders? Kids are dying in large numbers from fentanyl overdoses or gunfire in your common-sense Democrat cities—every day, not just some random Burlington day in November. But to the point about them being shot because they are Palestinian, why did that story just fade into the woodwork? It was hot for a few minutes, but a good shooting narrative always has legs, even in the short-attention-span universe. Unless?
While the usual suspects rallied against Israel for the shooting of three Palestinian youths, none of them ventured past the shooter’s skin color to plumb his progressive White-Hippie essence. This is, after all, Burlington, Vermont.
[James J. ] Eaton had been described as “that hippie guy” and “progressive”, an organic farmer who had posted a meme with a definition of “Amerika” that called it “the worst sense of the United States, ie imperialism, corruption and the global exportation of American culture.”
He appeared to be a Biden supporter
Media outlets, anti-Israel activists and politicians attributed the shootings to the Hamas war. Everyone from Biden and Kamala on down emphasized the “Palestinian” identities of those shot and implied that Eaton had attacked them because he was opposed to the ‘Palestinian’ cause.
In reality, Eaton supported Hamas.
None of those facts achieved escape velocity outside Independent media. But it looks like Eaton was just an unstable left-wing crank with a gun in a Democrat city who decided to shoot three guys in front of his home.
In a red-flag state like Vermont and a common-sense gun-law city like Burlington, you’d be right to wonder how their safety support system failed so miserably. Their correct response is we should disarm everyone, which I’m sure the city council would love, but that wouldn’t stop the violence. Burlington is also a sanctuary city (in a sanctuary state) overrun by an ideal that, in practice, is as fake as their climate science. Diversity is not always our strength. Not their variety. Diversity of thought is a strength, but they oppose that with every fiber of their being. Perhaps that’s why they are so unaware that not only do many ethnic groups with the same skin color (or something close) hate each other outside America, but many from the same nation hate each other, and they are not going to stop because you brought them here.
If you cram them into a foreign city thinking a progressive subsistence lifestyle on welfare will turn them all into a melting pot of cartoon animals in a Disney movie, you’re a deranged idiot.
The reporting on the incident and other violent encounters in Burlington are littered with mentions of drug dealing, stolen cars and guns, shootings in garages and names like Abdirahman Mohamed, Ahmed Mohamed, Badal Khadka and Abukar Hilowle.
Burlington has experienced an exponential rise in property crime, shootings, and murder (we write about that a lot here), but little is said about the who and the why. The ‘who’ is often displaced immigrants, many likely here illegally, and the what is the crimes they commit as gang members against each other and the indigenous white-hippie population.
Democrats in Burlington and across Vermont invited this upon themselves. Nothing they know how to do will make it better; it will likely only make it worse. And neither the politicians nor their media will say a word about that if it can be helped.
In fact, given the table they’ve set for themselves, White-Hippie-Mecca can’t even complain openly; that would be racist.