Students for a Democratic Society promised to "challenge capitalism" with a "mass disruptive action" in Georgetown to protest the International Monetary Fund. The result? An innocent bystander got hit in the head with a brick:
(Hat tips: Memeorandum, BreitbartTV.)
Tom Knott saw it coming:
The oppressed revolutionaries are calling for "disruptive actions," unspecified though they may be. . . . Comrade Che Guevara would be the first take up arms against the ruling class of Georgetown if he were still around to inspire the unwashed masses. . . .(Remember, kids: "Che Guevara was a murderer and your T-Shirt is not cool.")
Power to the people who own nothing but the clothes on their backs and the bricks in their hands.
Michelle Malkin has a suggestion:
If just one city targeted by these criminal punks would crack down hard instead of slapping them on the collective wrist, the property damage and assaults would stop.-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times
Comments (1)
I guess the lesson from this is that it is acceptable to use violence to destroy peoples property but you better not injure anyone. If Che were alive, he could probably win his case in court by pleading that the injured girl was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when it came to his right to protest. Somehow I remember the evolution of current terrorism starting with property destruction (blowing up airliners) and evolving to kidnapping murder and suicide as we became more tolerant to each level of violence.
Posted by Larry Stone | October 25, 2007 4:25 AM