Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government's War on the Left / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky on his TomDispatch article, "American Inquisition: Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government's War on the Left," which also appeared at Salon. Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a writer, ethnographer, and human-rights activist from New York City and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of The Occupiers and American Inquisitions (forthcoming in 2025), and has written for the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Tom Dispatch, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Newsweek. You can read more of his work at mgouldwartofsky.com. Also included: Rotten History about the Port of Chicago disaster. Support This is Hell! on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Well, my mom was' old I be. Boy, you're running around.
0:15.0	Well, my mama mama m' mama me
0:18.0	Yeah, you're gonna run around. The water is good. The United States. Welcome Neil. Thank you. The guy is a welcome now. This is hell.
0:55.0	live from the United States where the law is far too often a crime.
1:07.0	This is hell and it seems that the left is far more aware than the right when it comes to the law perpetrating
1:15.3	which should be understood as crimes, but for whatever reason are not.
1:21.1	According to today's guest, there's a good reason for that, as all
1:24.0	evidence suggests the police are way more tolerant of the far right than they are of
1:29.1	liberals, let alone the left. All we have to do is remember the August 2020 civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
1:38.0	following the police shooting of Jacob Blake,
1:40.0	an African American man who was shot seven times by a Kenosha police officer and became
1:45.9	paralyzed from the Waystone.
1:48.0	Kyle Rittenhouse walked right by the Kenosha police carrying an AR-15 style rifle and into the protests when his actions
1:57.5	turned deadly.
1:58.8	He then left with arms up and again, right past police able to return to his home across the border in Illinois,
2:08.8	where he was not arrested or charged for any crime for days. Or remember what happened on January 6th, 2021, less than five
2:16.8	months after those killings of left-wing activists. As the violent right-wing crowd entered
2:22.1	the U.S. Capitol building in search of elected representatives,
2:25.3	they were suddenly confronted by police.
2:28.7	This apparently confused the reactionaries who were heard, saying to the cops, we're on your side.
2:36.6	In a few minutes we will have the return of scholar, educator, ethnographer, human rights
2:42.2	activist, sociologist, artist, postdoctoral research
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