Organized Left shows its power

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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