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Agitators Agitate

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And nominally peaceful protesters condone.

Peaceful demonstrations in downtown Chicago ended in a violent clash between police and protesters Saturday, leaving 17 officers injured and two dozen people arrested.
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“Multiple agitators hijacked this peaceful protest,” Mr [Chicago Police Superintendent David] Brown said late Saturday. “This group deployed large black umbrellas, changed their appearance and began pushing and eventually assaulting officers.”

It’s not strictly true that agitators hijacked the protest.

If those “peaceful” protesters had truly wanted to stay peaceful, they would have dealt with the agitators in their midst before the latter could convert the protest to violence.

Certainly, that would be hard to do, but hard means possible.

At best, the “peaceful” protestors are shirking their personal responsibility and putting their obligations off on others.

The Doctors Video

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Here, through the efforts of One America News Network, is the video of facts and considered medical opinion that the amateur censors of Facebook, Alphabet (through its YouTube and Google subsidiaries) and Twitter don’t want you to see because it runs counter to their pre-written narratives.

It’s 45 minutes long and well worth every moment, whether or not you agree with their opinions, because it’s useful to get all sides of the matter. Especially if Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey don’t want you to see the whole story.

Government and Student Debt

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In an article on the possibility of the Federal government extending its current moratorium on student debt repayment, The Wall Street Journal posed a question to its readers.

How should Congress address the backlog of student-loan payments borrowers will owe after Sept 30?

I say, mostly by leaving it alone. The loans are strictly business arrangements between the borrower and the lender.

In a free market economy, government has no role here, other than to allow student debt to be discharged through bankruptcy like most other debt. Such bankruptcies then must flow with all the ramifications they entail for both the lenders and the borrowers.

Government also should stop guaranteeing student loans. If there needs to be a guarantor in order to have a student debt market at all, let the colleges and universities be the guarantors, either individually or via a consortium. It is, after all, the colleges’ and universities’ high prices and non-marketable or low-income-producing majors that drive the difficulties graduates have with their student debts.

Preserving the Peace

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Christopher Columbus statues in Chicago’s Grant and Arrigo parks were taken down under cover of darkness in the wee hours of last Friday. Grant Park is in downtown Chicago, but Arrigo Park is in the heart of Chicago’s Little Italy.

The city’s tear-down was done in direct response to the prior week’s “protesters'” violence when they tried to rip the statues down themselves.

Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot (D), issued a statement about her government’s complicity in the statue takedown.

This step is about an effort to protect public safety and to preserve a safe space for an inclusive and democratic public dialogue about our city’s symbols[.]

Because surrendering to the demands and threats of a violent minority is the path to inclusivity and democratic dialogue.

Because utterly ignoring Americans of Italian heritage regarding a symbol of an Italian hero is purely inclusive and encouraging of democratic dialog.

Because ignoring a majority of Americans regarding a symbol of an American hero is purely inclusive and encouraging of democratic dialog.

Because doing things in the dark of night is the public way of action.

Surrender and appeasement—they’ll bring peace. Absolutely they will. The peace of tyranny.

Politics of Division

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In a Fox News opinion piece about what Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden needs to do to get elected besides ride ex-President Barack Obama’s (D) coattails, Progressive-Democrat Doug Schoen, 30 years a pollster and Democratic political consultant, had this remark.

Biden and his fellow Democrats are still struggling to develop a positive narrative surrounding Biden’s candidacy that is more than a reaction to President Trump’s polarization and division.

Trump’s polarization and division.

What polarization and division? It’s not Trump who’s practicing identity politics that, by design, divides and polarizes.

It’s not Trump who said 15% of Americans “are just no good.”

It’s not Trump who said to a black man that if he didn’t support Biden “you ain’t black.”

The division and polarization are broad—from one side—and have been going on for some time.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who actively blocks speech or writing that runs contrary to what the blockers already have deemed to be appropriate and acceptable.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who says Federal law enforcement officers are military troops, Gestapo, occupiers.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who is accusing an incumbent President of trying to steal an election.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who is accusing an incumbent President of planning to try to stay in the White House should he lose the election.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who says if they don’t get their way, they’ll burn the system down.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who said millions of Americans are racist deplorables.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who derisively dismissed millions of Americans as mere bitter clingers to Bible and gun in flyover country.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who accuses those who disagree with them of being racist. Or just stupid.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who dredges up things from a man’s distant past and looks to destroy the man over that distant past.

It’s not Trump—or any Republican or Conservative—who said Tea Partiers are just Astroturfers and tea baggers.

Schoen should know better.