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If We Can’t Unite Against Rioting, We Can’t Unite at All
National Review ^ | Feb. 2, 2017 | David French

Posted on 02/03/2017 5:58:19 AM PST by libstripper

Public officials should find riots more appalling than free speech.

n the United States of America, rioting to stop free speech is unlawful and reprehensible. Period. Full stop. It’s not “understandable.” It’s not excusable. There should be no tolerance and no sympathy for people who pepper-spray young women, beat bystanders senseless, and tear up property because they’re mad that another human being is speaking.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berkeley; riot; terorism
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Good article by French. Too bad he was dumber than a bag of rocks to get sucked into the utterly vile, traitorous #NeverTrump rancid bowel movement, a movement that would have elected the Witch and made stopping this kind of terrorism impossible.
1 posted on 02/03/2017 5:58:19 AM PST by libstripper
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To: libstripper

What part of “If Trump isn’t elected we get Hillary” didn’t they understand?


2 posted on 02/03/2017 6:00:26 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: libstripper

David French should go riot and call for a military coup.

The difference between the Left and #NeverTrumpers is one of means - not of principle.


3 posted on 02/03/2017 6:01:10 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: libstripper

Arrest the rioters and then they get no government payments of any kind until full restitution is paid for all damages during the riots.


4 posted on 02/03/2017 6:03:16 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: goldstategop
The difference between the Left and #NeverTrumpers is one of means - not of principle.

The point of Michael Anton, the exposed Publius in The Flight 93 Election , two must-read articles for every Freeper.

We have our new William F. Buckley, master of writing, conservative ACTION, and moral/political philosophy.

And while WFB is now smiling, NR needs to step aside. They are simply irrelevant. The Berkeley riots were the consequence of the left being the left. #NeverTrumpism failed to understand that the problem wasn't Trump it was the left, and worse, the do-nothing GOPe and their passive conservative enablers.

5 posted on 02/03/2017 6:08:53 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Former Proud Canadian
What part of “If Trump isn’t elected we get Hillary” didn’t they understand?

Actually it was worse. Anyone besides Trump gave us Hillaryism. If we had had little Marco we would have had permanent Hillaryism. It would have been our last true choice before the floodgates opened and the dams and dikes came tumbling down and the American Republic ended once and for all.

6 posted on 02/03/2017 6:11:06 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: libstripper
If Sheriffs in counties being afflicted by anarchist violence would invoke posse comitatus, my hunch is that hundreds of armed citizens would gladly show up and quell the rioting bastards, pronto.
7 posted on 02/03/2017 6:11:35 AM PST by tomkat
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To: libstripper

Fringe lunatic liberal governed cities such as Baltimore and Berkeley choose to give rioters space to destroy and force police to stand down rather than put a stop to the violent Democrat Rioters.
Nothing will change until that attitude is utterly defeated.


8 posted on 02/03/2017 6:22:01 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: libstripper

I don’t care about “uniting”. All I care about is WINNING!!!!


9 posted on 02/03/2017 6:22:05 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: tired&retired

NRO is now largely irrelevant in the discussion. Trump communicates directly with Americans and doesn’t need the filter of NRO or the Weekly Standard to sell his message.


10 posted on 02/03/2017 6:23:20 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: libstripper

Naw it is just work place violence; after all the rioters are being paid.


11 posted on 02/03/2017 6:25:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: libstripper

National Review suddenly dislikes riots?

They seemed to love them in Chicago last year. Even blamed Patriots for them.


12 posted on 02/03/2017 6:29:40 AM PST by The Toll
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To: libstripper

Well, screw you—NationaldhimmiReview.

Sideways.

........with a hot poker.


13 posted on 02/03/2017 6:32:10 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: libstripper

we are united, just a small group of professional demonstrators and rioters leading a small group of uneducated people that hold communist ideology.


14 posted on 02/03/2017 7:27:23 AM PST by merkava
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To: tired&retired

Please pass on to Pres.Trump: my husband’s, (retired Army officer), solution to preventing riots is to use water cannons with permanent blue dye to disburse these groups who go beyond peaceful protests.


15 posted on 02/03/2017 7:38:21 AM PST by omegabea ( Formerly 4truth, but still for truth.)
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To: libstripper

French is a cuckservative clown, virtue signaling with his adopted Somali daughter.


16 posted on 02/03/2017 8:17:36 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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French is a cuckservative clown, virtue signaling with his adopted Somali daughter.

Is his adoption of a child rescued from a hellhole like Somalia a problem?

17 posted on 02/03/2017 10:22:16 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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To: omegabea
Please pass on to Pres.Trump: my husband’s, (retired Army officer), solution to preventing riots is to use water cannons with permanent blue dye to disburse these groups who go beyond peaceful protests.

Why not call in the swat team with paint ball guns?

18 posted on 02/03/2017 12:25:52 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: JimRed

Is his adoption of a child rescued from a hellhole like Somalia a problem?

Yes. It's called virtue signalling.

He's nothing more than a Social Justice Warrior masquerading as a "Conservative."

19 posted on 02/03/2017 10:53:18 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Yes. It's called virtue signalling.

Lord, not another social-behavior term. I'm having trouble keeping them all straight. OOPS! Can't say "straight"; might offend the homosexuals or the crooked!

So if I do something good, kind and charitable I'm guilty of virtue signaling, or risk being accused of same?

You may well be correct about this individual's motivation; I have no way of knowing. I'm only commenting on the concept .

20 posted on 02/04/2017 7:14:34 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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