{"id":1586,"date":"2008-04-29T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:50:53","slug":"enforcing-the-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Enforcing the peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ago, I first republished an email I received ostensibly from the Swartout family who were attacked while filming an anitwar demonstration in Edinboro, PA. I won’t recount the story, but a link to the first post is here<\/a>, so you can refresh yourselves. I felt at the time that there was probably more than what we were being told. My buddy Bostonmaggie<\/a> wrote me earlier that a video was in the hands of Fox News and that O’Reilly planned on doing a story about it tonight, so I thought I’d wait to see the tape before I passed judgement.<\/p>\n

Well, a friend of this blog sent me a link to a copy of the video yesterday on the condition that I wouldn’t make it public until after Fox News broadcast their story on the incident. I’ve been getting antsy all day, everytime I saw an O’Reilly commercial tempting viewers with the tape, but I like getting tips and stuff before Fox News so I kept my trap shut as I promised. If you missed the O’Reilly broadcast, here’s the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s note:<\/strong> Apparently, whoever put the video up changed their mind and marked it “private”, but I found the link at GOE-NY<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

The Swartouts weren’t exactly angels, but it’s clear from this video that the antiwar folks clearly escalated the confrontation to violence. I’m surprised that the police didn’t at least take one of those folks off in handcuffs to make a point. As I said last week this will only encourage the antiwar types.<\/p>\n

What put an end to the protests of the seventies was after the unfortunate events at Kent State, at a demonstration in New York City, constructions workers were tired of listening to the constant whining and climbed down from their steel and started beating hippies in the streets. The police were reticent about forcing the Left to behave themselves and decent citizens were forced to put an end to the useless bellyaching and anti-social behavior.<\/p>\n

Am I threatening the Left or inciting the Right – absolutely not. I’m just drawing lessons from history, something the Left has failed to do in this escalation of reactions. The police have a responsibility to establish and enforce boundaries of civil behavior. Throughout history when the authorities have failed to enforce those boundaries, people have taken it on themselves to enforce those boundaries, with much more disastrous results.<\/p>\n

Crossposted at Talon <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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