LA: More Mostly Peaceful Protests!

Protesting ain't what it used to be

Opening the border for four years didn’t work for the Dems. Now they think burning the streets will work to protect the creeps they let in. This only serves to make the Democrat party even less desirable than it was two weeks ago, if that’s possible, while confirming to the rest of the nation that we’re on the right track with Trump and Common Sense.

The problem for Dems, of course, is that the nation voted for Trump, NOT Kamala. America is overwhelmingly for peace in the streets and the deportation of illegal aliens. We’re also about truth and common sense. Dems aren’t.

Watching the evening news is like watching the filming of the next GOP campaign ads. Just keep attacking law enforcement, burning and looting. We all enjoying seeing you get arrested. And we’ll all enjoy watching these scenes replayed for decades to come, just before we vote.

We’d also like to get to the bottom of who’s bankrolling this endeavor. The riots are well-organized, well-funded and coordinated across the nation. Some of the protests are being funded by NGOs. Others get private funding. The question becomes, who is paying to promote violent lawlessness, which is what today’s protests have become.

Years ago, when I was younger and more foolish and a reporter with the campus radio and television station at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, student protestors were against the Vietnam war, not society as a whole. They didn’t like SIU’s involvement in a Viet Nam studies program (believed it was a CIA funded front for evil doing), and they didn’t like the Air Force ROTC, headquartered in the oldest building on campus named, appropriately, “Old Main.”

The protests then were far closer to “mostly peaceful” than they are today. They included sit-ins, teach-ins, general demonstrations and the burning of draft cards. A flag might have been desecrated. One or two store windows were broken. To my recollection none were looted.

Students blocking streets and intersections were systematically dispersed with tear gas by local and state police, with some backup by members of the Illinois National Guard. No one carried weapons to use against police or bystanders. No politician showed joined with demonstrators to storm government offices and be arrested. No one was called a Nazi. Democracy wasn’t under siege.

The National Guard was called in. More than a few National Guard troops were students at SIU. It was sometimes obvious in their demeanor. In at least one instance I watched a melee of students – running from police – escape around a corner and out of sight of officers, but into the arms of a National Guard detachment. Guardsmen sent the students in one direction and a few moments later pointed pursuing police in the opposite direction. It was a nice touch during a tense time.

There were exceptions to the general lack of violence. In June 1969, SIU’s original building, Old Main, burned. Although a definitive cause for the fire was never determined, many believed it was arson committed by anti-war activists. Regardless, the burning sparked further student protests. By May, 1970, SIU students were participating in national student strikes over the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings. That month, protestors in Carbondale occupied some buildings, marched on the university president’s home and threw rocks, breaking windows. The Carbondale campus was closed for the remainder of the semester.

The difference between protestors then and now is focus. Anti-war protestors of the 60s and early 70s focused their opposition on an unpopular war. The SIU Library (Morris Library) that fronted a lawn where protestors often gathered was not the enemy. It was a library. It was not harmed. Merchants whose stores lined the main drag in Carbondale, where several protests took place, also were not the enemy. Looting and destruction would have been senseless and counterproductive and, I suspect, was so anathema to the general anti-war peace-at-least philosophy of most protestors that it was infrequent. This was the Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Judy Collins crowd. Nineteen sixty-nine was also the year John Lennon penned his iconic “Give Peace a Chance.”

Today’s protestors have a mob mentality and are focused on far more than simply amnesty for all illegal aliens. They want complete and total surrender by all of us. In their world, there is no place for difference of opinion. “We’re right. You’re wrong. We’re going to destroy you.”

They mask up, armor up and carry weapons into the fray they have recruited for and organized. They assault police. They loot. They burn. And they do so with impunity. Riots in Democrat-controlled cities usually mean a lack of enforcement by local police departments. If arrested and charged, they will fall back on the usual Democratic tactic: they will sue.

The rioting is reminiscent of the so-called “summer of love” of 2020, but on a far larger scale. Americans didn’t like it then. They’re not standing for it now.

The illogic of these rioters’ senseless destruction is lost on no one but the rioters. They are betting on the short side of an 80/20 issue that is probably closer to 95/5. No civilized person wants what rioters are offering. By extension, no normal person wants what Democrats offer. They have no platform, no leadership and no value proposition. Period.

The ideas of the left have become so foreign to sane human beings that Democrats, thanks only to themselves and their rioting proxies, don’t stand a chance at public redemption.

Which is why Democrats and leftists have become the poster children for the end-run. No NFL player does it better than Democrats. Rather than seek to alter public opinion by promoting popular policies, Dems would rather bludgeon their ideological opponents on the streets and in the courts. Rather than work legislatively to change immigration laws, they prefer to open the borders to murderers, rapists, pedophiles and human traffickers who terrorize and victimize our nation. Democrats would rather mount countless court challenges through a bevy of sympathetic federal judges than accept the fact that our nation’s commander in chief is charged with running the executive branch of government and entitled, by law, to affect change.

Their entire act is the equivalent of throwing feces at you and expecting you to ask for more.

The graffiti is on the wall, and lots of other places. The LA and other riots are proof the Dems are the Party of Organized Crime. The rest of America is about Law, Order, Faith, Family, Country and Common Sense.

Their only hope lies in decrying the violence, as has Democrat Senator John Fetterman. Then acting to squelch it and work on solutions everyone can live with.

If I was Dictator for a Day (and I’m not) I’d order everyone NOT to hold their breath.