Rioting is Good Fun Until It Comes to Your Door
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Burn that brand new low income housing development to the ground, but keep your grubby paws off my estate peasants! BECAUSE I AM DOWN FOR THE STRUGGLE!
Social media gives the illusion of being an omniscient observer, and then grubby real life intrudes!
My oldest just graduated college summa cum laude, but he isn’t sure of the immorality of the riots and looting because of the Boston Tea Party. Cuz, you know, it’s all the same thing.
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I did consider taking the crowbar I’ve been using to demo our flood damaged basement walls and giving his fraternity beer stein a good whack. Am I not justified in doing so? Covid19 is going strong in Michigan, and the flood was insult to injury. Masks and “stay safe” verbiage are very triggering for me these days. I need a way to protest and vent.
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But, I guess doing evil (damaging someone else’s property) that good may come (my sanity??) is a no-no.
Rioters are peacefully protesting at the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls. Police, State Troopers and National Guardsmen are showing their support with tear gas.
Rumor has it peaceful protesters have been bussed into Sioux Falls from out of state all day.
City wide curfew and State of emergency just announced.
There are two interpretations I can see for this, not mutually exclusive and neither present:
1.) A large number of American citizens have been itching to destroy the country in a literal way for some time now, and will not be stopped by anything other than violence.
2.) The riots are being coordinated by nefarious influences of whatever source.
Even given that people are a little crazy from the lockdown, there is no way that this is an organic reaction to one man’s death. The reaction is too widespread and the actions are too extreme.
What am I saying, of course the answer is that both things are true.
Look at what they are doing to the capital: people who didn’t have an absolute hatred for this nation would not go around desecrating every landmark they could get their hands on. (I haven’t heard if they’ve tried to deface the Lincoln memorial in the name of anti-racism yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me).
But at the same time people consumed with such hate wouldn’t organize this quickly without guidance from an outside source.
Democrat whirlwind to lock down panicdemic: race riots, depression, food riots, totalitarian control, Communist take over, mass murder, war, evil Pope, corrupt Church I think the Great Chastisement is upon us. Pope John XXIII should have obeyed Our Lady of Fatima.
Well, over here, the fact that they staged their little vandalism and looting hootenanny at the Empire Mall, (windows broken, some stores looted –including a jewelry store in an adjacent strip mall and a verizon phone store; some idiot yute chanting “anarchy!” for the local tv crew) tells me that all the “pent up rage” about “police brutality towards african-americans” boiling over after George Floyd’s death in police custody is a just a pretext for the organizers and coordinators of this spontaneous, multi-state “protest.”
But I pretty much knew that anyway.
They stayed away from the downtown shopping district. Probably because, as local news reported, all the store owners were standing guard over their property. Most of them with guns, and friends with guns.
It’s legal to for private citizens to use lethal force to protect their property from persons intent on committing a felony in South Dakota. I looked it up.
Might be why everybody decided to go home (t least that’s the way it seems now) after a couple of hours of throwing rocks at the police and getting tear gas, rubber bullets and paint balls thrown back in return. Or maybe enough dumb locals, realizing that a violent protest, with looting and vandalism, wasn’t a street party by another name, wised up and left. So the antifa types lost their cover and had to leave as well.
This rent-a-mob stuff has been going on in a lot of places, even in other countries. LBGT parades in Poland have been populated by bussed-in mobs.