Americans are completely correct in expressing utter disgust with the outrageous violent turn of the election protest at the Capitol on January 6th. People who smashed windows, pushed through barricades, injured others, and fought with police should be promptly prosecuted. In a system of ordered liberty, all forms of violent conduct are always dead...
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Melancton Smith | Sunday January 10, 2021 at 12:30 PM PST
Lawrence J. McQuillan | Wednesday June 10, 2020 at 11:29 AM PDT
Unfortunately, we have seen this before: police beat, shoot, or kill an unarmed person, people gather in the streets to demonstrate peacefully, but eventually rioting and looting follows. Anger erupts, blood is spilled, property destroyed, neighborhoods are ruined, but, in the end, local policing is largely unaffected. Typically, the governmental response involves creating a...
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Melancton Smith | Wednesday November 11, 2015 at 6:03 AM PST
In an act of cowardice, the University of Missouri’s system president and chancellor resigned on Monday. Protestors, led by master’s student Jonathan Butler who went on a hunger strike, complained that the University did not side with Michael Brown against the Ferguson police force and has not taken action against “a slew of racist,...
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