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The Morning Rant![]() I remember watching the 1950s version of The War of the Worlds on TV when I was a boy, maybe age 8 or 9. What scared me most about the movie was not the fearsome aliens cruising around in those tripod things laying waste to everything that moved not the scene where the main characters encountered an alien in that abandoned barn, but the scene where Dr. Forrester is trying to get out of Los Angeles with all his cool Science Stuff in a truck and he turns a corner and lands smack in the middle of a riot. The scene shows some policemen trying to keep order and one of them (actually, I think it was a national guard guy) gets into it with a rioter who punches him in the face. And that really shook me. It's difficult to describe how creepy and weird I felt. I was just shocked. You're not supposed to punch policemen in the face! That's just wrong! What kind of world is it where policemen get punched in the face? I don't want to live in that world! My 9-year-old-boy brain had a very difficult time processing this. And then the rioters threw all of Dr. Forrester's Cool Science Stuff out of the truck (along with Dr. Forrester) and drove it away. I couldn't stop thinking about that scene for the rest of the movie. So when I hear news about the police being ordered out of certain areas and BLM/Antifa allowed to take control, as happened in Seattle and Portland, I get the same creepy and weird feeling. This is not supposed to happen! The police are not supposed to run away! They're supposed to protect us! What the hell's the matter with them!? Well, it most likely isn't them, i.e. the rank-and-file police. I think they probably know that their supervisors and elected officials do NOT have their backs and there's a very good chance that they'll be called out for even the most minor mistake to appease the mob, and they don't want any of it. Some poisonous fruit from trees planted in the 1960s is now coming fully ripe. Because that's when many of the elected officials who are running our blue cities came of age and they've seen those protests. They may even have taken part in them. At the very least, they sympathized with them. The point is, these elected officials have more in common, ideologically and culturally, with the BLM/Antifia thug rioters than they do with the citizens they've sworn to protect. So they are really hesitant to do anything to actually stop the riots (which they keep insisting are "mostly peaceful"). They don't want to see their besties in antifa get their heads busted or water cannoned. They'd rather see stores looted and burned rather than be perceived by their buds in BLM as being insufficiently down with the struggle. They know whose side they're on and guess what, it's not ours. Imagine being bullied at school, and you go to the teacher for help, and not only does she side with the bully, and tell you that you need to give the bully some space to be a bully, but you see her laughing and joking with the bully like they're BFFs. A lot of blue city citizens and business owners ought to be feeling this way right now, and if they don't, they need to wake up. Maybe they should be planning an exit strategy. Because when the thug rioters can get away with punching cops in the face, that's when it's time to get the hell out.
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