Rex Murphy: If our leaders won’t stand against violence, they are unfit to lead

A man walks by the Conversation Cafe while carrying a firearm in the police-free zone known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, in Seattle on June 15. DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGES

The new state remains fragile. But they have set up barriers, that some nasty Trumpians (could be one) are calling a wall. And there are some setbacks from people who actually own houses or businesses and think they live there.

Still, the cause has been said to be good, and that’s all that counts. Concerning this, said motto, “the cause is good”, seems to be a license for all kinds of strange and even dangerous behavior.

Certainly, the protest offers a kind of cover for those who despise “the system”, as they call it democracy, to act with violent and threatening behavior, presumably in the hope of disrupting that system. And it is normal to doubt that the boys moved to the high-end shopping district of New York to get the loot from Prada or Louis Vuitton, they were excited about the vibes of “social justice”.

Timely excuse for some

As already mentioned, all protests are not protests and in fact, it could be said with total firmness that the cause is real for some, but nevertheless, it is a great blanket of excuse for others.

Without a doubt, we are in strange and potentially dangerous times, especially when we tacitly give, or in the case of the Mayor of Seattle and the Governor of Washington, explicit approval to street vandals. Protesters think they are licensed to do anything.

In London, and this is a real test case, they want to tear down the Winston Churchill statue. The correct and moderate response to that civic blasphemy is vigorous: “Who the hell do you think you are?”

In this way, it is considered that if the mind awakens, the current eruptions seem to be more of a widespread mobilization than the apparent protest by the police, feel qualified to pass a sentence of condemnation on Churchill, have passed into regions of moral arrogance and justice truly terrifying transcendental to behold.

Likewise, if current customs and current leaders consider as much as tearing down a Churchill statue, if those same leaders do not simply mock the arrogant claims of those same protesters, we should all just surrender and go home. All it takes to resist this madness is the spine. Make your motto stand up, not kneeling.

Source: Rex Murphy | National Post