The “protests” are not against the death of George Floyd.
His connection is no greater than the length of the fuse needed to set off a
vast accumulation of explosive hatred for the United States, the capitalist economic
system, and rationality itself.
If the protests were about Mr. Floyd, they would have
stopped with the filing of murder charges against the officer directly
responsible for his death, and with the filing of charges against the three
other officers present.
Despite the filing of charges, the protests went on, virtually
without skipping a beat. Perhaps if the officers had been dragged from custody
and been hung or beaten to death, the protests might have stopped, simply out
of shock at what had been done. But not necessarily.
The protests have the flavor of a pogrom incited by a single
incident and taken as symbolic of something vastly larger. They have the same
character as the vast destruction of Jewish businesses in Germany in Nov. 1938,
in response to the killing of a German diplomat by a Jew.
Generations of miseducation, akin more to a process of
protracted lobotomization than to education, especially in the so-called social
sciences and the humanities, has produced millions of graduates who are profoundly
ignorant and barely capable of thinking.
To protect themselves from ever learning anything by listening
to ideas that conflict with their dogmas, they shout down speakers. When the
opportunity arises, they seek to get professors with alternative views fired,
if they’ve managed to be employed in the first place.
The educational system’s graduates are so ignorant that despite
the scores of millions of deaths it has caused, they do not know that socialism
is a system of slavery, terror, and mass murder, and want to impose it on the
United States.
At the same time, they regard the United States, the first country
in the history of the world created on the principle that individuals possess unalienable
rights that governments are instituted to protect, as though it were a tyranny ruled
by evil “capitalists.”
They ignore the fact that to rid the country of slavery and
make it true to its founding principle of individual rights, more than 300
thousand Union soldiers died in the Civil War, out of a population 20 million,
which toll is comparable to almost 5 million today.
They are so pathetically ignorant that they do not even know
what biologically distinguishes men and women and believe that by wishing, they
can override these biological differences.
They do not know that freedom is the absence of the
initiation of physical force, and that it is secured by the ability and willingness
to counter the initiation of force with greater, defensive and retaliatory
force, thereby creating personal safety.
They do not know that a police force and army are
essentially the one proper function of government, and that in preventing, or,
if necessary, overcoming the initiation of force, it secures the freedom of the
individual and respect for his rights.
They do not know that the essential problem in securing
individual rights and freedom is keeping the government in check. It must be
prevented from itself initiating force, which it does any time it makes illegal
something that is not the initiation of force.
In an upside down, inside out, total reversal of rationality,
today’s protesters in seeking to achieve socialism seek the use of government force
in every area of life. Their newly discovered exception is prevention of common
crime. They want to abolish local police departments.
Perhaps there is a logic in all this. Namely, today’s
looters and fire bombers might serve as “post-police,” enforcing endless
regulations, working as spies, and guarding inmates in the socialist state’s
concentration camps. There will certainly be no shortage of such monsters.
There is practically no hope of any serious news analysis
from today’s mainstream media. The New York Times, for example, has sunk to the
level of urging people to eat insects (https://nyti.ms/2O0ivSS) and to avoid the use of toilet paper (https://nyti.ms/3aPuZs0). Loathsome.
Readers who want serious discussions of leading current issues can
start by consulting my Amazon author’s page at https://amzn.to/2NLvVVZ. The works found there, especially my
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, provide references to all the
important relevant literature.
