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Statue Toppling Is Bringing Mob Rule to America
Mobocracy is coming to America.
A debate over policing, race, and history has degenerated into general lawlessness, as mobs have swarmed and destroyed statues in our biggest cities from coast to coast.
And these mobs have hardly been discriminating.
They’ve targeted Christopher Columbus, Founding Fathers, Confederate generals, Union generals, abolitionists, black Civil War units, priests, and even a novelist.
Mobs Fueled by Hatred of America
As I wrote in my book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” this slippery slope of statue toppling was a natural progression for those who believe that American and Western civilization are built on nothing but malignancy.
The movement was supercharged by the now Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project,” which is finding its way into K-12 curriculum around the country.
Why Is No One Stopping the Mob?
As we saw on Father’s Day weekend, in cities across America, lawless vandals are defacing and pulling down statues, destroying public property, often as police and authorities essentially stand down and watch.
Regardless of what one thinks of any particular statue in this country, a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people requires deliberation in a public process for any kind of removal to take place.
Now, the few dictate to the many, with force, what statues stay up and which come down. Most simply come down.
In addition, politicians have seemingly been eager to meet the demands of this movement, and the whims of the mob, by jumping ahead and removing statues and the names of historical figures, often with little legal justification.
This is mob rule, pure and simple, and it’s what our system is devolving into in cities around the country, as Matt Mehan, the director of academic programs at the Kirby Center, deftly explained in a thread well worth reading on Twitter....”
Time to Heed Lincoln’s Warning
Read the rest here : https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06...BdTE5aWIwaUJ5bFhFUGtTRHhDWE9vQ1JXZG53OUxsVSJ9
Statue Toppling Is Bringing Mob Rule to America
Mobocracy is coming to America.
A debate over policing, race, and history has degenerated into general lawlessness, as mobs have swarmed and destroyed statues in our biggest cities from coast to coast.
And these mobs have hardly been discriminating.
They’ve targeted Christopher Columbus, Founding Fathers, Confederate generals, Union generals, abolitionists, black Civil War units, priests, and even a novelist.
Mobs Fueled by Hatred of America
As I wrote in my book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” this slippery slope of statue toppling was a natural progression for those who believe that American and Western civilization are built on nothing but malignancy.
The movement was supercharged by the now Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project,” which is finding its way into K-12 curriculum around the country.
Why Is No One Stopping the Mob?
As we saw on Father’s Day weekend, in cities across America, lawless vandals are defacing and pulling down statues, destroying public property, often as police and authorities essentially stand down and watch.
Regardless of what one thinks of any particular statue in this country, a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people requires deliberation in a public process for any kind of removal to take place.
Now, the few dictate to the many, with force, what statues stay up and which come down. Most simply come down.
In addition, politicians have seemingly been eager to meet the demands of this movement, and the whims of the mob, by jumping ahead and removing statues and the names of historical figures, often with little legal justification.
This is mob rule, pure and simple, and it’s what our system is devolving into in cities around the country, as Matt Mehan, the director of academic programs at the Kirby Center, deftly explained in a thread well worth reading on Twitter....”
Time to Heed Lincoln’s Warning
Read the rest here : https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06...BdTE5aWIwaUJ5bFhFUGtTRHhDWE9vQ1JXZG53OUxsVSJ9
