Be careful as you read this, Comrade. Your waitress may be watching.
Yes, as you sit outside waiting for your panini or plate of eggs, your server could be surveilling. Your barkeep may be keeping abreast of your commentary.
Welcome to Massachusetts, where every restaurant could be Cafe 1984.
Just ask Swampscott Selectman Donald Hause. He was at the Mission on the Bay last Thursday, having drinks with friends. Not surprisingly, the conversation “included many topics of the day such as the Black Lives Matter movement, politics, media coverage, the police and re-opening businesses,” Hause says. “At one point, I shared my personal view that I believed the rioting and looting was hurting the Black Lives Matter movement and its core message.”
A person with a critical opinion about rioting and looting? Discussing the current #BlackLivesMatter movement in less-than-laudatory terms? An outrage!
Fortunately, social justice warrior and bartender Erik Heilman was nearby. He overheard Hause voicing his opinion and once he was back home, Heilman outed the selectman for the sinister nonconformist he is.
“I witnessed Don talk about the illegitimacy of the BLM civil rights movement. He declared it was nothing but a bunch of ‘Liberal (expletive),’” Heilman posted on Facebook. “I was dumbfounded by the things … these people casually throw around as if nobody would hear them.”
Well, Comrade, they can hear you. In fact, members of the progressive mob (#ProgMob) are probably listening right now.
Like their predecessors — the Jacobins of France, the Reds of Russia, the Stasi of Eastern Europe — they understand that their most powerful weapon is fear. Making the case for #DefundThePolice is hard. But scaring people into submission by destroying the lives of dissenters? That’s easy.
And so Drew Brees, who said he didn’t agree with disrespecting the flag as a strategy for political protest, was dragged to the progressive gallows and forced to apologize. Dave Andelman of Phantom Gourmet criticizes “politicians and police (for) ‘taking a knee’ after looting in major cities” and has to resign from the business it took decades of hard work for him to build. He also apologized for his remarks.
Last week the Washington Post highlighted white Minneapolis liberals who struggled with how to talk about the political protests, as well as the riots and looting, that swept their city. “It felt wrong to say we’re with you until you start looting,” said one 33-year-old suburban mom.
Of course it’s wrong! Anything other than “We’re with you — period!” is wrong. The Social Justice Jacobins will accept no less.
“I am trying to push myself to understand looting,” she added later, and not a minute too soon.
You must learn to understand looting. You must not question policy proposals like replacing cops with social workers, no matter how illogical they seem. Otherwise — you’re out.
Once again, ask our Comrades in Swampscott.
When the pro-BLM bartender posted the customer’s private conversation, he was promptly fired. When you run a business you have to have rules and you have to follow the rules, according to Mission on the Bay co-owner Marty Bloom.
“If you’re here, you’re in Switzerland,” Bloom said Tuesday. “People need confidentiality in our restaurant.”
It took less than 24 hours of ProgMob to turn Switzerland into Soviet territory.
Firing Heilman “was a mistake,” said fellow co-owner Wellington Augusto. “Erik is correct in standing up for what is right, and I am proud of what he has accomplished with his message.”
“It is with that in mind we no longer can welcome Don Hause into our establishment,” Augusto added.
Some people would say they don’t want to go to a restaurant where the employees monitor your opinions. Some would say this is a lousy way to run a bar. Some might even say there’s something unhinged about politically obsessed extremists, and tragic about the business owners and institutions too frightened to stand up to them.
Some people might say all these things, Comrade. As long as they don’t say them … out loud.
Michael Graham is a regular contributor to the Boston Herald. Follow him on Twitter @IAmMGraham.
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