Radical Agenda S06E056 - No Equivalent

The recent upheavals in the life of one Robert Rundo provide a fine example of the asymmetry characteristic of Left vs. Right lawfare. Nary a word has been uttered by the self styled Respectable Right about his persecution or that of his cohorts. Rundo has twice had his federal charges of conspiracy to violate the Riot Act dismissed by a District Court Judge in California, in well articulated decisions that explain in great detail the circumstances surrounding the case. He was just arrested, for the third time, on those same charges, yesterday, though the allegations are from more than six years ago.

Growing up in Flushing, Queens, Rundo was given harsh lessons in his early adolescence on the dangers of illegal immigration. His neighborhood was plagued by MS-13 gang members who terrorized his friends and neighbors. To those gang members, Rundo became known as "El Diablo Blanco" - Spanish for "The White Devil" because he was not the type to be bullied.

In the year 2009, Rundo was caught on surveillance camera stabbing one of those gang members. Other footage from the incident showed this gang member racing toward Rundo and his associates welding a club. That MS-13 gang member was a twice deported illegal immigrant, and one of those deportations stemmed from his being in possession of an illegal firearm.

Rather than give Robert Rundo the keys to the city, as a sane society would have done, he was prosecuted for gang assault. It was his first arrest. Rather than face a jury, he pleaded guilty, and was sent to a New York State prison for two years.

There, Mr. Rundo was further educated on the realities of racial conflict in America. Those lessons, combined with more textual study over the course of his life, helped to form his world view.

That view was at the heart of something that came to be known as the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, which Rundo founded with some associates in California in 2017