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"A long time ago, a fire was started by a Communist that was used by fascists as the excuse to suspend everyone’s civil liberties.

Has something like this just happened, again?

The home of the governor of Pennsylvania – who is Jewish – has been torched by a Communist. Of course, these Communists call themselves by other names nowadays – such as “progressives” and “Democrats” and even “anti-fascists” – in order to get people to forget (or not understand) that they are Communists. The ideology hasn’t changed. Just the branding.

Anyhow, a Communist named Cody Balmer has reportedly been arrested for torching Josh Shapiro’s home. Shapiro being the Jewish governor of the state of Pennsylvania who was not chosen by Kamala Harris to be her running mate because so many Communists who “mask” as Democrats are not supporters (anymore) of the state of Israel, which most of them used to be – just as most of them used to support Elon Musk and free speech. To the extent it benefitted them.

Well, one of them just did something very . . . Anti-Semitic. That is how it is likely to be framed and then used to justify suspending the civil liberties of people who do not support the state of Israel, which is already being framed as “anti-Semitic.” The beauty of this tactic is that it’s true – in the sense that the Communist who torched Shapiro’s residence probably did it because he opposes what is being done by the Jewish state and supported by politicians such as Shapiro, who are Jewish. This makes it snap to conflate being opposed to the actions of the state of Israel with being opposed to people who happen to be Jewish. Yes, of course, there is often overlap. But it does not mean that all Jews support what the state of Israel does anymore than it means people who aren’t Jewish who oppose what the state of Israel does hate people who are Jewish, just because they’re Jewish.

But that is not how it’s going to work.

The fire will fan the flames of what will be styled opposition to “anti-Semitism” – pushed by the right – and that will come to mean the harassment and perhaps even prosecution of people who oppose the actions of the state of Israel.

Trump has been saying he intends to do just that. There are already laws on the books in many states doing just that – in that a person who says anything that is deemed “anti-Semitic” by the arbiters of what constitutes “anti-Semitism” – who just happen to be fierce defenders of the state of Israel and whatever it does – can be denied the opportunity to bid for state business and that is likely just for openers.

In Germany, it is already a crime to give voice to “anti-Semitic” utterances. It is becoming a crime here – in that it is being punished by kicking “anti-Semitic” non-citizens out of the country. Do you suppose this will be limited to non-citizens? Do you think the weevils deep within the federal leviathan who are “monitoring” the social media posts of non-citizens are not monitoring the social media posts of citizens, too?

Perhaps it is a good time to revisit the words of Martin Niemoller, with a few modifications:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the “anti-Semites” and I did not speak out -because I was not a Jew-hater.

Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me."

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/04/14/the-new-reichstag-fire/