June 13, 2020
Seattle Illustrates the Dangerous Consequences of Viewing Lawbreaking As Virtuous
The year 2020 promises to be the beginning of a decade perhaps more chaotic than the Sixties unless America’s law abiders become law upholders. Tolerating intolerance is no way to fend off a violent mob.
by Cameron Macgregor
The pin may have been George Floyd’s tragic and untimely death, but the grenade that exploded America’s frayed social cohesion is something far darker. For anyone paying attention to the looting, theft, pyrotechnics, and physical violence that has taken place in America’s cities—and that continues in Seattle—it is plain to see that the rule of law is breaking down, or at least being challenged in a fashion that it has occurred in decades. There is a compound fracture between the shrinking silent majority of law abiders and its growing minority of lawbreakers. It is time for America’s law abiders to become law upholders before the rule of law breaks down completely.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/seattle-illustrates-dangerous-consequences-viewing-lawbreaking-virtuous-162645
