Posted on 06/13/2020 6:01:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
When a movement says, “silence is violence,” it is no longer democratic, but a totalitarian movement that opposes the very essence of choice -- the right to be apolitical.
Mass movements with ostensible democratic goals start out toward benign change, but their successes only feed a hunger for greater political transformation.
Left to the streets, that hunger is attracted to the extremes as the extremists are attracted to it.
When the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who has passionately sided with the opponents of police brutality, is heckled out of a demonstration because he refuses to commit to the mob’s demand to defund the police, that is shoving someone into the theater of the absurd.
In the world of realpolitik, you build coalitions where you can find them. In street theater, you ignore political reality to shove an important ally away.
The demonstrations over the horrific death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer have descended into the absurd. Peaceful demonstrations, during the day, have been amplified by dysfunctional violence at night.
How is the quest for racial justice helped by looting a department store or burning out a black-owned restaurant already teetering on the verge of collapse, having been closed by the pandemic?
At some point, the rioters and looters will go home, leaving in their wake the burned-out rubble belonging to the lower black bourgeoise.
These black businesses will never reopen because the future insurance premiums will be too high. Already, there are complaints that the marauders on Chicago’s southside have created food deserts with vandalized groceries that no longer can operate.
Among the most important functions of breaking the barriers of de jure discrimination was the creation of a viable black middle class.
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Idiots riot and loot. Their families and neighbors pay the price. Same as it ever was.
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yep
I suspect envy of hard-working blacks who own stores also figures in the targeting and destruction of businesses by rioters.
I’ve committed to tear down each one of the “Silence is Violence” signs I see. I’ll do it without saying a word!
truckers are going to stop delivering to cities that refund police because it is too dangerous. Then where will the loons get food?
They are going to end up the main victims.
There are two kinds of rioters and looters, broadly speaking.
There are idiots that riot and loot in their own communities, destroying the business they and their neighbors depend on for jobs and places to shop.
There are evil rat bastards who riot and loot in other people’s neighborhoods ... AntiFa is an example of these.
In fact, thanks to the likes of AntiFa I would opine that 2020, 99 years after the last time mobs of angry white people burned down a black community, marks the year that mobs of white Democrats returned to burning down black communities.
“Progress”
Can you blame the truckers? I can’t
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861: Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
https://www.snotr.com/video/18886/Farmer_sprays_manure_all_over_protesters_trespassing_on_his_land
Don’t mess with Farmers.
our sniveling cowardly politicians and the media/dem complex have remained almost totally silent for decades as criminals and lowlifes have murdered and raped their way across the national, North, South, East, and West. Their silence can be taken as approval of what the criminals have brought down upon us. Now, they remain paralyzed in fear as domestic terrorists rampage through city after city, rioting, looting and burning. Their silence encourages violence.
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