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What on earth is going on?
Until the deplorable death of George Floyd, most of us were told we must social distance because of coronavirus.
Now a few Western countries have been breaking that rule to protest by the thousands as well as set fires and loot.
The media have their role to play in this, too.
From former reporter Adam Housley and his Twitter followers:
Incredibly, some — not all — nurses are the common point in the Venn diagram of coronavirus and protests. Don’t they have patients?
On the other end of the spectrum, we have General Mattis calling President Trump divisive because he wants to stop Washington DC from becoming an ashtray:
Remember the early days of the Trump administration? The Left didn’t like Mattis. Now he’s their best friend:
And what about the average guys and gals who aren’t doing triage or serving in the military?
They’re being told by their notional betters that they are wrong to want to hug their grandchildren, attend a funeral or go to church. Such people are called ‘Grandma Killers’.
Protesting, rioting, setting streets alight and looting during a pandemic are perfectly acceptable alternatives to these people. Here’s a great thread from journalist Drew Holden with a gimlet eye on his peers:
Drew Holden then brings in a few Dem governors before returning to journalists and political activists:
These are two of the replies he received. I fully agree with the sentiments:
Ian Miles Cheong, the managing editor of Human Events, is always worth a read.
Here’s footage of ‘peaceful’ demonstrators in Seattle:
He came to this conclusion:
However, people are afraid to not support the protests, possibly like the aforementioned nurses.
Mollie Hemingway from The Federalist highlighted this poll from Emerson:
Tucker Carlson tells us not to surrender to the mob. True.
On the other hand, we need to be aware that some looters and vandals are being released from police custody:
Incredible.
Equally incredible is that churches cathedrals were vandalised across the nation. Some cathedrals now require extensive repair, as the Catholic News Agency reported on Monday, June 1 (emphases mine):
Catholic churches and cathedrals in several cities were among the buildings damaged in the protests and riots that occurred nationwide over the past week.
Church buildings in California, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky, Texas, and Colorado were attacked. Many of the defaced or damaged churches were cathedrals. The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver sustained permanent damage.
Vandals repeatedly struck the Denver cathedral on multiple nights of the protests and riots over the weekend. The church building and rectory were spray painted with the slogans “Pedofiles” [sic], “God is dead,” “There is no God,” along with other anti-police, anarchist, and anti-religion phrases and symbols.
Gates surrounding the cathedral were damaged, and tear gas that was fired to disperse the protests leaked into the rectory. The doors to the cathedral are believed to have been permanently damaged by the vandalism and will reportedly need to be replaced.
Three bags of rocks were collected from the parking lot, but the cathedral’s most valuable windows were unharmed. Other windows on the cathedral’s campus were shattered.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City was tagged with various graffiti, including profanities, “No justice, no peace,” “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) “NYPDK.” The name of George Floyd was also written on the stairs outside the cathedral …
Sickening.
One of the strangest journalistic twists was the invitation from the New York Times to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) to write an editorial about the riots. He nails it:
Yes, they did apologise for it, in a way:
Ultimately:
The Federalist‘s Sean Davis had a go at their reporters. The responses are good, too:
In 2019, only 10 blacks died at the hands of the police. The United States has approximately 325 million people. Meanwhile, 48 police officers were fatally wounded, according to FBI data.
In 2015, under Obama’s presidency, the number of blacks dying at the hands of the police was three times higher.
Tucker Carlson has the details of the ten deaths in the video below. The details of the cases come from the Washington Post. In only two of the cases, an officer was criminally charged. In the other cases, the suspects had attacked or assaulted police officers in various ways, including firing a taser and driving at full speed after them.
In 2018, over 7,000 blacks in America were murdered — no police involvement. So, that’s one police murder for every 700 committed by civilians, often people they knew.
I would encourage everyone — especially those living outside of the United States — to watch Tucker run through the statistics and share them with their friends and family:
Bottom line: factually, there’s no need to riot.
As a final thought, here are two great videos from a Trump supporter, who says it’s time for Americans to put away their divisions and, together, embrace patriotism. Language warning, but well worth watching:
Yet, despite all this — coronavirus and riots — maybe America is poised for a swift economic recovery this year:
As the president is so fond of saying: ‘The best is yet to come’.
I certainly hope so, for America’s — and Donald Trump’s — sake.
Churchmouse Campanologist 