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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: After Charlottesville The Retreat Of Law—And Law Schools One problem underlying our present discontents—a problem that looms larger and larger in my mind the more I think about it—is what I think of as the retreat of law. Case in point: the August 11/12 protests in Charlottesville should never have been allowed to get so violent. There were a few hundred protestors on each side. The torchlight parade on Friday night drew (I think) about a hundred Alt Rightists. There were more on the scene Saturday, perhaps four or five hundred. Counter-protestors were about the same in numbers. Only some proportion on each side were up for a fight, though. What proportion is hard to say, but we’re probably talking merely dozens. City and State Police and National Guard numbers were at least equal to the total number of demonstrators—I heard a thousand law enforcement officers altogether. If you subtract out the suit-and-tie Alt Righters, and the love-the-world church types and cat ladies on the other side, the numbers inclined to fight were way outnumbered by law enforcement. So why wasn’t the law enforced? Why weren’t the streets of Charlottesville made safe for ordinary citizens? If I’m right about the fighting element numbering dozens, why weren’t there dozens of arrests? The question arises even more starkly in the subsequent destruction of a monument to Confederate soldiers in Durham. The whole thing was filmed at leisure as it progressed, with no police anywhere in sight. Watching the jeering crowd kicking and stomping and spitting on that fallen statue of a Confederate soldier, I’m sure some of you were thinking the same thing I was thinking: How gratifying it would been if that fallen statue had sprung to life! What fun it would have been to watch these gentry-Liberal snowflakes, lifestyle pansies, and pampered Affirmative-Action toy poodles running screaming in terror from an actual Confederate rifleman! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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