John Hinderaker over at Powerline reviews the rioting and vandalism and the complete unwillingness of the police to stop it and asks, “why do we have police?” A valid question, to be sure. Why have police if they’re not going to stop a riot?
And one, for which, actually know the answer.
The reason the cops aren’t moving seriously against the rioters is very simple – you do that, and you’ll get in trouble. The liberal narrative is that the thugs running amok are just kind, caring people who want to save the world – club a few of them in to submission and you’re going to have nothing but trouble. Reports to fill out. Investigations to endure. Possible loss of job. Just not worth it – better to just let them do their thing and then supervise the clean up after its all over.
Other stories are emerging that the police in Toronto are taking a harsh stance against one group of people – the reporters in Toronto who are informing the world both of the riots and the lack of police response to same. Allowing that to happen would upset the apple cart – meaning, if you get a story out there that creeps are rioting and cops aren’t stopping it, then that could be used to force the police to do something. And that, in turn, runs the very risk the cops don’t want to run…taking action which might get them in trouble.
The plain fact of the matter is that no one ever has a right to riot. No one has a right to block public thoroughfares. No one has a right to vandalize public or private property. People who do such things have placed themselves outside the law and if they don’t stop, after a clear warning and very short time frame, they are subject to a violent response from the authorities – up to and including deadly force as the police shouldn’t have to place their own lives unduly at risk to stop people who are acting quite insane in the public square.
But liberalism doesn’t allow such things – doesn’t allow, that is, the rational conduct of public business. First liberalism will create a fantasy world where some nefarious group (in this case, the leaders of the G20) are wrecking the world. Second, liberalism will write a script which has it that the authorities are always wrong. Third, liberalism will marshal the entire weight of publicity against anyone who reacts properly to a riot. Toronto’s riots are the natural outgrowth of the liberal world view – any place long under liberal governance will see the same thing happening; riots and lack of police response.
Those of us who care about civilization and the average, hard working people who live in it must take a different view. We must recover a willingness to see things as they are and react to them based upon thought – and as soon as you think about it, you realize that the primary victims of the rioters are average, work-a-day people who actually make society work. It is they whom society is supposed to be built for – not for people who want to smash things.
We need to work for a society where the honest and hard working rule the roost – not the dishonest layabouts who riot at the drop of the hat.
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