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Destruction's defenders
Destruction's defenders
The hush that followed President Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. But today, if a conservative figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, progressive Democrats would freestyle on the coffin lid. ...
The hush that followed President Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. But today, if a conservative figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, progressive Democrats would freestyle on the coffin lid.
Recall that following the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, ghoulish miscreants in political, entertainment, and media spheres immediately leapt into the spotlight, maws a-drip.
And sadly, their wickedness endures.
Upon hearing during a March 11 broadcast that President Trump rightly condemned vandalism and arson of Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, MSNBC host Alicia Menendez grabbed up the fake news bullhorn: "So, just to be clear, you protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration a domestic terrorist."
Were MSNBC's top-floor nabobs at all decorous, they would acquaint Menendez with the Joy Reid exit door.
Only mentally disheveled subversives and press charlatans would rank purposeful violence as legitimate protest. Violence is not speech that enjoys constitutional protection. You can express disagreement with others, but you cannot firebomb their businesses.
During the often-savage George Floyd street riots of 2020, police were assaulted, cars were set ablaze and overturned, innocent passersby fell victim to screamed epithets and physical attacks, and at least one law enforcement precinct was torched by Molotov cocktail-hurling thugs. (Some 163 other structures were also burned.)
Deceitful media commentators pronounced the anarchic mob actions to be "mostly peaceful."
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The plain difference between word and action was once widely understood. But no more. Left-wing agitators apparently feel that perpetrating destruction is a justifiable means for ideological promotion.
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Riots are not reasonable avenues open to any who feel -- fairly or not -- unacknowledged. To argue otherwise is to fan anarchy's flames.
(Yes, the Boston Tea Party included property destruction. But it challenged oppression by an unelected foreign sovereign; that pivotal circumstance does not exist in modern America.)
In decades since King's words, all manner of pernicious dissidents have fancied their flawed ideologies to be valiant crusades whose validity renders lawfulness negligible.
It is hoped that due respect for law and order will return in this Trump era. A good start would be understanding that violence is not laudatory protest.
Commentary:
There is a difference between the thoughtful (and prayerful) Decoration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto. But Democrats and other leftists cannot se that. I think that more of us should be thinking about where to draw the line.
