CIVILIZATION | SAVAGERY
How often have we looked upon the violent quarrels in the Middle East and found ourselves harking back unto the biblical prophecies of the end of days?
And how often have we not sat back and thanked the heavens that the rampant savagery within the Levant is providentially absent from our own locales?
Well, rest easy no more, for the battleground far away is fast becoming the battleground next door.
In Berkeley, Missouri, a man stopped for questioning by police draws a handgun when approached and is, with clear justification, shot dead. The encounter is captured by surveillance camera. Even the strongest critics of perceived police misconduct concur that the shooting was in order.
But not the protesters.
The mayor of the great city of New York, a city in mourning following the assassination of two of the city’s finest—a mayor of the most ultraliberal bent who deeply sympathizes with much of the protesters’ brief—asks that in simple decency they desist during the brief period of mourning.
They do not.
On the West Coast, protesters, on Christmas Day, smash the windows of two businesses unconnected in any way with their protests, then proceed to lay waste to a city Christmas tree—the very symbol of the Prince of Peace whose precepts, effectively echoed so movingly by the martyred Martin Luther King, they brutally ignore. The protesters make their agenda plain by spray-painting on a nearby wall KILL COPS.
Meanwhile, on the East Coast, protesters—on the day of one slain New York officer’s wake—parade while chanting “What do we want?” “Dead cops!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” And the contrast between the disgraceful obscenities of protesters on both coasts and the silent dignity of the mourners and the decent inhabitants of New York could not be more clear.
The patience of the good is rapidly coming to an end. The pendulum soon shall swing, and once again the eternal protocols of civilization shall supplant the caterwauling of savagery.
It won’t be pretty.
[Posted 29 December 2014]
