Been digging up stories about things like people being harassed by crowds at restaurants, e.g., Ted Cruz and wife being bullied right out of a restaurant popular with politicians. They’d have been better off going to some place without getting a reservation first and also choosing a restaurant at random.
But what happened was the ambush in the restaurant, surrounded by an angry mob of howling creatures – can’t call them women or human – and finally leaving. This is not public commentary. It is exactly the “ambush tactics” described by the writer of the WSJ article from yesterday, which also addresses throwing due process out the window.
The restaurant owner did call the cops, and they came. She also offered the Cruzes another reservation. I don’t know whether or not they took her up on it. But the cops are under no obligation any more to do anything other than investigate and arrest. They are no longer here to protect anyone, period.
That means that if you get confronted by an angry mob that suspects you of doing something, based on hearsay, rumor, innuendo, and fictitious claims, and nothing else, you are toast. Period.
Likewise, anything you may do to defend yourself and anyone with you against such an angry mob of loons will get you the label of ‘mass-something or other”, even if you are not that kind of person.
In a Leftred article on another site, the title included the words ‘All-out War’. You have to ask why? What is the purpose of using a term like that? The writer who said that has likely never seen a real war, never faced destruction of anything other than his paycheck when the bills arrive and never had to deal with the real tragedy of warfare. I doubt that he’s ever had to face a true legal challenge, either. But real all-out war? Bring it, Stupid!
Is this insanity ever going to end? Yes, it is, because every cycle has a beginning and an ending. This cycle is at its midpoint, maybe a little past it. It’s entirely possible that it will implode soon, but we have to be patient and watch it. It’s also possible that the crazypants stuff will become such a turnoff to voters that anyone wavering over “which candidate” may go to the conservative side.
When Robespierre’s hatred of the aristocracy so blinded him to the way other people regarded him, the council he had set up voted to execute him by guillotine, a rather fitting end to his rampages. He might have been good at inciting the mob to rule, but he was quite blind to how much other people despised him. His nasty crap lasted barely a little over four years, starting in 1789. No one was spared. No one received due process. They were guilty by association, by heredity, by their existence. Then he met his own fate in 1793.
This is why I say that every cycle has a beginning and an ending. Robespierre’s came and went, and France went back to being La France. History shows us that these cycles all start, expand and end, sometimes abruptly. Some are long, like Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union until he had a brainfart and died, and some are short, like Pol Pot’s lethal roughshod ride over Cambodia, which lasted two years. Again, under these heinous criminals, no one received due process. They got the firing squads if they were lucky, or the gulags if they weren’t.
Should you be concerned? Absolutely. When you cannot go to a grocery store or a restaurant without being harassed and threatened with physical harm by spoiled brat three-year-olds in adult bodies throwing tantrums in public, it means that mob rule has become their norm, which is exactly what the current so-called Democrats want. It is especially onerous for people in public offices, whose images appear in the media, and whose values at this point are slammed into pulp, first by the media and after that by mob rule. You are guilty of something regardless of your real innocence, while nothing the mob says would ever hold up in court.
But returning to the incident at the restaurant: if the worst thing that happened was that a bunch of obnoxious overgrown kindergarten bullies made nuisances of themselves with the Cruzes at a public restaurant, and no physical damage was done to either the Cruzes or the restaurant itself, this may be a signal that the Idiotic Era of Screaming Hysterics and Throwing Things may just be coming to an end.
There’s Newton’s 3rd Law: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Isaac applied it to physics. He also sold insurance when he wasn’t waiting for the apple to bonk him on the head. It has a wider application that just physics, however.
Think about it for a minute. Real mob rule is getting into the Old Fart Stage of its life. That’s the state in which it starts up fast, makes a huge effort, runs out of breath, can’t quite pull itself together, tries to acquire fresh blood, and then begins to wilt, slumping back into its chair and trying to catch its breath. It may have started a new cycle with the French Revolution, but that is now well over 200 years ago. It destroyed the real Russian government, leading to decades of trampling under the heel of Stalin’s thug-driven Communist government, which was not quite what those Russian people were expecting. And driving Batista out of Cuba ended with far more poverty and financial ruin than was promised by Fidel and Che. No one was spared under these thugs.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
This rampaging horde business started 2 ½ years ago with the Masked Assholes in downtown Washington smashing windows, turning over newspaper boxes, and setting a couple of cars on fire. It didn’t go too well when they tried to beat up a female cop. It subsequently became an on-campus rampage and fire at UC-Berserkley when a conservative gay guy (Milo) tried to have an appearance there. That ended quickly. The part-time “prof” who whacked an opposition protester with a bicycle lock got his ass fired. (Has he found real work yet? No?) The protests over the following spring and summer were short, not widespread, and not damaging, as they could have been. The so-called “women’s march” in Chicago was supposed to attract a million marchers and had, by one newspaper’s guesstimate, barely 175,000. Another paper said 200,000. But how do you really tally a crowd properly without a tickets total? You can’t. As desperate as these crowds may have been to commit mayhem, those who were arrested for arson and property damage did receive due process under the law.
But now, a bunch of snot-nosed twits invade a Washington, DC, restaurant popular with politicians and pester someone whose position is the opposite of theirs. At least they didn’t overturn the tables and chairs, trash the place or set it on fire, and they didn’t chase the Cruzes out the door. The owner showed the Cruzes how to leave by the back door, and invited them back.
Still, their decision to harass and bully the Cruzes is a direct manifestation of, not just crowd/mob action, but an unwillingness to allow due process to take place. A refusal to listen to the other side of the story. Guilty until proven innocent. Cruz did nothing wrong, but those people clearly wanted to pillory him, if they could have gotten away with it. Mob rule does, however, seem to be reaching its limits now. The juice is running low. If you post your image online bullying someone – anyone including a politician and his wife, your employer can and just may fire your ass.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We do have another two years to go. There will be more SCOTUS seats to fill. The midterms are coming up. The outcome in each district and state will be determined by how many people go vote and of those voters, how many vote Leftred or Rightwingythingy.
Let’s stop calling these “liberals” Democrats. The Democrats of the past were much more conservative and better mannered than this bunch of birdbrained idiotas. Let’s call them what they really are: Communistas, Leftreds, herd mentality idiots, spoiled brats – whatever. I doubt that they’d like it if they had to live under real communism, because as anyone who was fortunate enough to escape that prison planet can tell you, it was hell on earth. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was about more than just survival in a gulag. Pot Pot’s Khmer Rouge were nothing but murdering, torturing savages. The Kims made people dig their own graves before executing them.
The Leftreds are making very unpleasant nuisances of themselves now, getting a lot of face time on the screens, going to a lot of trouble to let us all know how truly intolerant they really are.
My reaction to it is that I would not vote for anyone they endorse. Period.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
