The Post & Email by Ron Ewart 4/24/2021
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.” — Robert Kennedy
“The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues ‘non-negotiable demands’ may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his ‘victory’ the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.” — Richard M. Nixon
Males, especially young males, are the worst offenders of crime. Females constitute less than 20% of arrests for most crime categories. (Source: Gender and Crime,
www.law.jrank.org)
But what makes the criminal in the mob that will riot, loot, burn and kill? One source describes it this way:
“When a group of people has assembled because they’re emotional and angry about something, it only takes one act of violence to whip the crowd into a fury. Others will follow the initial rioter’s lead and begin destroying property or hurting people. A lot of research has been conducted into the mindset of a violent mob. Being part of a group can destroy people’s inhibitions, making them do things they’d never otherwise do. They lose their individual values and principles and adopt the group’s principles, which, during a riot, are usually to cause destruction and avoid detection. Being in the midst of a mob can be exciting and powerful, and it can make people feel invisible — they are part of a huge group, and they won’t be detected or held responsible for their actions.”
However, in this day of cameras everywhere, picking out individuals from photos and videos in a rioting mob aren’t that difficult, especially during daytime hours. Just ask the over 400 individuals who have been arrested and sit in jail for their participation in the January 6th occupation of the U.S. Capitol Building.
In contrast, more than 10,000 people have been arrested for the rioting, burning and looting in 140 cities around the country since the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis on May 25th, 2020. We were unable to determine how many arrested were actually prosecuted for their crimes and served or are serving time in prison. Many prosecutors refuse to prosecute the rioters and let them go free. Not so the Capitol occupiers.
What prosecutors are not doing with regard to the rioters, looters and arsonists is called permissiveness. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, used permissiveness in his description of where Western civilization is headed: “Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”
More:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2021/04/24/to-stop-mob-violence-you-must-crush-it/
