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Hancock: The phrase that shields tyranny behind a slogan

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, National, Top Stories / June 12, 2025 / Civic Order, Civil Unrest, Cultural Politics, Doublethink, First amendment, Free Speech, Language Manipulation, Mob Violence, Newspeak, Orwell, Peaceful Protest

In George Orwell’s 1984, citizens were told that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. It was called Newspeak—language engineered to distort thought—and doublethink, the act of believing two contradictory things at once.

Today, we don’t need fiction. We have the perpetual news.

Across America, mobs swarm immigration offices, smash windows, burn vehicles, blockade highways, and hurl explosives at federal buildings—all while being shielded under the banner of “peaceful protest.” The phrase is repeated so often it’s practically trademarked. Politicians echo it. Journalists parrot it. And poets romanticize it, casting destruction as defiance and rage as righteousness.

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ICE raids uncover felons, gang members amid L.A. protest chaos

Fox News, Approved, National / June 8, 2025 / California, Civil Unrest, Federal enforcement, gang violence, ICE, Illegal Immigration, Law and Order, Los Angeles, National Guard, President Donald J. Trump, Protests, Riots, Sanctuary cities

Federal immigration authorities said some of the migrants arrested in the Los Angeles area last week had criminal histories that included assault and drug offenses.

Nearly 45 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday alone, as officers swept through several locations, including two Home Depot stores, a store in the fashion district and a doughnut shop, prompting protests that continued through the weekend against immigration enforcement operations in which officers raided businesses to arrest workers. The weeklong tally of migrant arrests in the city surpassed 100.

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COvid Chronicles May 24–31, 2020: When ‘peaceful protests’ overruled pandemic policy—and unleashed chaos

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, Commentary, National, State, Top Stories / June 4, 2025 / Civil Unrest, Colorado media, Denver Riots, George Floyd, Governor Jared Polis, Pandemic Policy, Peaceful Protests, Public Trust, The COvid Chronicles

The sixth installment of RMV’s COvid Chronicles covers the week Colorado dropped the mask—just not in the way you’d hope. Restrictions vanished for rioters, but stayed in place for students and small businesses. It wasn’t science guiding policy. It was politics. No, it’s not short. Neither was the fallout.

Looking back five years later, it’s hard not to feel for everyday, taxpaying Coloradans. As May 2020 ended, COVID cases dropped, testing surged — and all people wanted was a little common sense.

Instead, they stayed home from work, logged into Zoom again and again, and watched their kids graduate by car window, ski-lift, or rope rappel — masked, of course.

Then they turned on the news. And who were the headlines about? Not employees. Not the sick or elderly. Kids? You kid! This is The Child Sacrifice State, after all — and Colorado’s leaders eagerly traded away children’s well-being for the comfort of able-bodied adults still lounging in lockdown.

No, the real VIPs were criminals, prisoners and protestors — the approved kind. They got the passes, the platforms, the pulpit. Ordinary Coloradans were told to stay silent and stay home.

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