Posted on October 9, 2020

It’s Just a Matter of Will

Chris Roberts, American Renaissance, October 9, 2020

Germany showed some backbone dealing with troublemakers today. From the BBC:

Officers evicted about 50 residents at Liebig 34 – a now-rare symbol of the German capital’s radical-left alternative community.

The graffiti-covered building, located in a gentrified part of former East Berlin, had housed an “anarchist-queer-feminist” community since 1999.

The owner decided not to renew the lease two years ago, and sued the occupants when they refused to leave.

Police began enforcing the eviction order early on Friday. A few hundred people held a protest as officers removed residents from the four-storey building one by one.

9 October 2020, Berlin: Police officers are standing at an intersection in front of the evacuation of the squatted house ”Liebig 34”. The house is to be evacuated at 7.00 a.m. (Credit Image: © Paul Zinken / dpa via ZUMA Press)

Most large American cities have similar squatter houses: “Safe spaces” for radicals, criminal or otherwise. They are also all filthy and covered in graffiti. Here is what the inside of Liebig 34 looked like on eviction day:

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

There are reports that some of the protesters outside the building threw bottles and firecrackers at the police, but there was no serious resistance.

Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press

09 October 2020, Berlin: During the eviction of the housing project ”Liebig34”, police officers stand on a specially erected scaffolding and throw wood onto the street, which was attached to a window as a barricade. (Credit Image: © Paul Zinken / dpa via ZUMA Press)

09 October 2020, Berlin: A policeman goes down a staircase in the stairwell of the formerly squatted house ”Liebig 34”, in which a trap door was installed by squatters. (Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press)

09 October 2020, Berlin: Demonstrators face the police on the day of the evacuation of the squatted house ”Liebig 34.” In the background the pink smoke of a smoke bomb is rising. (Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press)

October 09, 2020, Berlin: A demonstrator is led away (Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press)

Police officers detain a demonstrator lying in the street. (Credit Image: © Fabian Sommer / dpa via ZUMA Press)

09 October 2020, Berlin: Police arrest a demonstrator (Credit Image: © Christophe Gateau / dpa via ZUMA Press)

Houses such as Liebig 34 offer refuge to any criminal thug who can repeat a leftist slogan. They are also indoctrination centers for apolitical druggies and waifs who wander in because they have nowhere else to live.

Governments across the West have all the weapons, crowd-control equipment, and vehicles they need to put down riots. All that’s missing is someone to give the orders.