Vincent J. Curtis
24 July 20
On Wednesday, over one hundred people showed up in from of Hamilton City Hall, blocked Main Street, the busiest street in the city, for two hours to paint "Defund the Police" on the pavement. Trafic was diverted, and no one was arrested.
The most
important aspect of the Defend the police strike in from of city hall is the
demonstration of how well organized the political Left is. One hundred
people did not spontaneously show up at the same time at city hall with bucket
of yellow paint and brushes with the goal of blocking Main Street in midday and
painting the chant de jour on the road.
A painful
aspect is that the police let them. If a couple of people showed up to
chant anti-gay slogans, the police would be all over them like linebackers on a
quarterback. But the political Left gets a pass.
A black
criminal dies in the course of his arrest in Minneapolis in May, and in late July
in another city in a different country with different laws and different racial
make ups and histories the same cause of defunding the police is chanted like
it happened here last week. On the face of it, absurd, but it isn’t.
It’s hard
to defend the police when they enforce the laws selectively. Overt
lawlessness is tolerated, so long as it’s on the Left. There won’t even
be arrests of the ring leaders.
Sure, let’s
defund the police. We already have one mob war, let’s have a few more.
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