Comments on: Cars, riots, Glenn Reynolds—and the law

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:51:14 +0000

If the Vietnam anti-war protesters were really against war on moral principle, why did they stop protesting? Why didn’t they demonstrate and protest the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 or the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979? When the USSR invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979 nothing was heard from the supposed antiwar protestors. Same thing when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. These people were not really against war as they claimed.

By: OM

OM — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:00:50 +0000

JJ:

I appreciate that you made the distinction between criminal behavior of members of a mob in a riot and did not leap to the “such criminals are no longer citizens response – deport them to Antarctica” to paraphrase.

Hell the Turks just marched the Armenians out into the desert to die, they didn’t have to ship then to Antarctica.

Summary execution of terrorists/unlawful combatants used to be the rule of war, now it would be rule 5.56 not rule 7.8 or rule 303. Exaggeration and hyperbole seems to have bled over from the election.

By: Stan on the Brazos

Stan on the Brazos — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:51:29 +0000

During the 6 day war in 1967 I got caught in a demo in Tripoli Libya while in my car. Fortunately nothing happened because the demonstrators were school kids about middle school age. But during the same time period 3 or 4 people were killed just a few blocks from where I was. From about 1961 to current only one American was killed in Tripoli demos and that was a lady.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 19:09:15 +0000

Ray: Really..? Seriously..? Those millions of women/girls in the anti-VietNam protests were scared of the draft?? WOW, Neo, that what’cha were riled up about?! ROTF’ingFLMF’ingAO…!!
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Thanks, Ray, for my Today Entry in my Daily Memoir entitled:
“You Cannot Possibly Make This S*** Up!!”

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:58:47 +0000

“all hotbeds of anti-war protest”
Actually they weren’t anti-war protests, they were anti-draft. Did you notice that the protests ended when the draft ended? The writer of a Washington Post article accidently told the truth. He said he graduated from college in 1971 and he was terrified of the draft and afraid he would be sent to Vietnam. The protestors were just frightened they might be sent to Vietnam, that’s all. They lacked courage, to put it politely. As Winston Churchill said, ” Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:07:16 +0000

Back in the bad old days of the anti-war 60s I was caught in three student protests where the anger and venom (They stole and burned our literature, spit at us, threw eggs at us, defaced our vehicles, and more) directed at my crew of Navy recruiters was enough that we considered it possible that they might overwhelm us and beat us up or worse. One was at Berkeley, one at San Jose State, and one at San Francisco State – all hotbeds of anti-war protest. It would have been nice to have had a weapon or a police presence, but we were unarmed and quite vulnerable. We were under strict orders to never react to the protestors because we were being filmed by the always present TV cameras. The protestors would have loved to have us react violently towards them. The fact that the TV cameras were there probably saved us in the end. The protest leaders were very smart about optics and narrative.

We planned our visits after those experiences to have a quick and simple retreat plan in mind and coordination with the campus or local police, who were fed up with the student protests too. They were our allies in not letting the protestors drive us off campus.

Since those days I have had a special place of contempt in my heart for demonstrators or protestors who violate other people’s civil rights. Protest is as American as apple pie, but when you block roads, threaten/do bodily harm, destroy property, and worse; you have become a criminal yourself.

In Charlotte they are discouraging the criminality with overwhelming force (National guard, state police, and outside police forces) and it’s working. At least so far. It’s an outrage when people peacefully going about their business are forced to make life and death decisions because of criminals and anarchists.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:21:58 +0000

Amen in Spades to your Twitter critiques, Neo!! More, I’m afraid, symptoms of the rampant social narcissism of the current age. I purchased the “Facebook & Twitter for Seniors for Dummies” book figuring it might help “get it” for both. Fell asleep within 10-pages and haven’t been back. My BAD. Unapologetically, I should add. The Donald’s inability to NOT pound out tweeties at midnight to those who’ve dared to criticize him says much about King Baby. (*To my sometimes horror, I’ll be voting for him.*)

By: OM

OM — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:10:16 +0000

Sergey:

The US is a very large country.

Are the “towns” of Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte still under the control of the mob’s that have “taken” them. TV and the media are in the business of selling advertising content is optional. So perceptions and though powerful may have no ground truth. Stack up the bodies in Chicago; that may look more like a low intensity third world war zone, but no national coverage in the media, why?

And to ramble on further, where is the “insurgency” in Tulsa? And who serves as the proxie for Iran in the US is Iraq, Mexico?, Canada? in the “USA is Iraq conjecture?” Just asking the obvious questions it seems to me. Appreciate your perspective in any event. Time to leave the soapbox. 🙂

By: CV

CV — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:39:28 +0000

I am sure there are many, many people at his university who have had it in for Reynolds for a very long time. They see this as an opportunity to take him down, or at least muzzle him, and will do their best to leverage this tweet to do so. I assume he has tenure, but that might not provide the protection that it would for his colleagues on the left.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:45:24 +0000

Reynolds should have known, does know, that one’s enemies will insist you said something awful and their followers will pretend to believe it.
Apparently his enemies include some of the U/T admin.