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Geoffrey Ingersoll, an editor-at-large of the far-right news outlet The Daily Caller, recently published an op-ed entitled: "Enough Is Enough ... I Choose VIOLENCE!"
Ingersoll argued that there was a "need to reinstitute a public debt for anti-social and subversive behavior" and that "some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent." He further opined that violence was necessary and justified as he believed law enforcement is too slow to act, saying "we’ve always known no one is coming to help us." As an example, he pointed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who recently dismissed charges against a woman who punched a conservative provocateur on camera.
"Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is," Ingersoll wrote.
The Daily Caller editor outlined grievances with liberals, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's four-month prison sentence, saying "all he did was defy a Congressional subpoena." He also supported President Donald Trump's Department of Justice in indicting former FBI Director James Comey, writing: "Democracy will survive if James Comey spends time in jail for lying to Congress to cover up a subversive conspiracy to undermine Trump." He further called for prosecutions against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and said he would be fine if Democrats did the same to Republicans once they returned to power.
"There should be a cost. For the lies, for taking the American people for granted, for selling them out at every end. For bullying them nonstop. Let’s reinstitute the cost," he wrote.
Ingersoll advocated moving past the "legal violence" and instead embracing "actual violence." He wrote that with a "rigged" legal system, conservatives had no choice but to "choose violence" and to "be wildly disproportionate."
"Force corrupt police to intervene. I want blood in the streets," he wrote.
In an editor's note at the top of the op-ed, The Daily Caller emphasized that it "does not condone violence in any form, especially political violence" and that "the examples outlined in the piece refer to hypothetical instances of self-defense, not political violence or extrajudicial mob action."
Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the Trump administration quietly deleted a DOJ study finding that violence by the American far-right far outpaces "all other types of terrorism," including acts of violence by both the political left and Islamic jihadists.
"Far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists [since 1990],” the report read, “including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.”