Told to shelter in place in the White House bunker after an angry crowd swelled outside the White House gates, 73-year-old President Donald Trump infuriated the media daring to suggest that local, state and federal authorities crackdown on lawbreakers. What morphed from peaceful protests over the murder of 46-year old George Floyd by former white Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin May 25 into rioting, looting and anarchy, Trump said enough-is-enough. Whatever sympathies anyone has with Floyd, the African American community cannot hold the rest of country hostage engaging in widespread violence. Justice can only be delivered by the rule of law within the U.S. Constitution, not vigilante street justice. Breaking storefronts, looting, burning down buildings is not part of anyone’s Constitutional rights. Trump demanded that local, state and federal authorities take charge.
If African Americans want more bloodshed from the death of George Flood, they’re getting dangerously close to that happening. At some point, even liberal media establishments don’t want their organizations burned to he ground, all because one minority group is enraged over the death of one person. Floyd’s killer lost his job and will spend most of his adult life in prison. Rioting, looting and arson won’t bring him back, nor will it undo 300 years of U.S. history when it comes to dealing with African Americans. Nowhere on the planet do minorities have more opportunity to make a better life than in the United States. Trashing U.S. cities, contributing to more unemployment and economic hardship won’t get Floyd back, nor stop more unwanted killings in the future nor add more opportunities for advancement, requiring lawbreakers to stop their violent rampage.
Trump wants local, state and federal authorities to maintain law-and-order, while the judicial system delivers justice for Floyd’s family and the African American community. “You have to dominate. If you don’t dominate—you’re wasting your time,” Trump said, reminding local, sate and federal officials that there can be no compromise when it comes to lawlessness. Trump called for mass arrests of lawbreakers, referring to rioters, looters and arsonists as “a bunch of jerks.” Trump’s response so far has been much subdued, refraining from calling out local, state and federal law enforcement from letting anarchists decimate U.S. cities. “It’s a movement, if you don’t put it down it will get worse and worse,” Trump said about the anarchists that have perverted the civil rights message related to Floyd’s death. “The only time it’s successful is when you’re weak and most of you are weak.”
Mainstream media hears Trump’s words about how to deal with insurrection as lacking sympathy for the African American community. No rational person, in the media or any other place, can possibly think that anarchy and lawlessness can be tolerated in an orderly and sane society. Whatever the collective rage of disenfranchised minorities, they can’t possibly think that lawlessness can win them concession from the local, state or federal governments. Calling Trump’s remarks “unhinged” shows how the American media only sees current events a means to advance a political agenda, not deal with reality. Watching anarchists and looters burn American flags was especially offensive to many people. “Flag burning is a disgrace . . . We have a different court. And I think that it’s time to review that again,” signaling he doesn’t see flag burning as covered in the First Amendment.
Trump’s views on the widespread rioting, looting and lawlessness mirror the vast majority of law-abiding Americans. “When some is throwing a rock, that’s like shooting a gun. What the difference?” Trump said. You have to do retribution in my opinion,” letting agitators know that there are consequences to breaking the law. So far, there have been no consequences to rioters, looters and arsonists, destroying businesses under the fraudulent excuse of civil rights. There’s no provision in the U.S. constitution to break the law, not matter what the grievance. “Washington was under good control, but we’re going to have it under much more control,” Trumps said. “We’re going to pull in thousands. We’re going to clamp down very, very strong,” calling law enforcement’s response around the country “weak.” Today’s media sends a mixed message to protesters that violence is OK.
Local, state and federal law enforcement, including the U.S. military, must get serious about controlling rioting, looting and arson. No civilized society can tolerate anarchy and lawlessness to deal with civil rights, social justice, criminal justice reform or any other issue plaguing its citizens. Whatever happened to George Floyd May 25, there’s no justice rioting, looting and torching private property. Whether admitted to or not, local, state and federal authorities must crack down on lawbreakers, regardless of their cause or agenda. Calling for a tough crackdown on lawbreakers, Trump mirrors the sentiments of the vast majority of law-abiding Americans that expect local, state and federal law enforcement to maintain order and safety on U.S. streets. No matter how sympathetic the press, they do the country a disservice giving any justification for anarchy and lawlessness.
