The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, and guarantees the right to freely exercise one’s religion, the freedom of speech and of the press, the right to petition government for redress…and the right to peaceably assemble.
When peaceable assembly becomes riotous, the right of We the People to live in peace is undermined. The Rule of Law is then applied, and the government steps in to restore law and order.
Here in Richmond, Virginia, we have seen the result of rebellious behavior because of the election of the new president, Donald J. Trump. There has been property damage and destruction as well as the disruption of the peaceable passage of non-protesting citizens. Some dozen protestors were arrested. What is to be done?
First, the VCU students who were arrested should be immediately expelled with no right of return to complete their course work. This idea of waiting for a plea bargain or hoping to get a lenient judge to water down the punishment needs to be stopped hard. A fine is an inadequate punishment and, frankly, has led students in many places to believe that the only punishment is a slap on the wrist. This encourages more violent riot and rebellion.
I was talking to a friend of mine about this anarchist emboldened millennial rebellion. He was dismayed about the closing of VCU because of hurt feelings. He remembered the day after the assassination of JFK and having to take a major biology exam. In addition, a friend of his has a daughter who runs a counseling service to teach corporations how to handle millennial new hires or employees. Many millennials have no concept of working within a hierarchy, freely takeoff when they feel like it, and have no loyalty to the job or the work to be done. This is what happens when everybody gets a trophy and performance is meaningless.
Second, state authorities have to make it plain that peaceable assembly is constitutional but once the line is crossed into violence then force, including lethal force, will be used to reestablish civil law and order. Recently in Seattle, the police declared the situation to be riotous and non-lethal munitions were used to disperse the crowds. Arrests were made but not until substantial damage had been done.
What is unfortunate is that few of those arrested will be held economically and socially accountable for the riotous violence. All too often, the result is that the costly damages and lost time opportunities will be transferred directly to the injured businesses and individuals.
Third, it appears that the Constitution is being shredded by people who neither understand nor support it. There is a need to teach and re-enforce American history with a specific focus on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Such things as the history of pornography or baseball, while interesting, are not fundamentally American history classes. Because of a lack of focus on the rational foundation of America, millennials have come to believe that totalitarian socialism with its supposed social justice mantra is superior to the constitutional rule of American law. This needs to be corrected if the nation is to survive.
Someone once said that tough love is a necessity. It is about time that these self-indulgent crybaby millennials learn some basic lessons of life:
Nobody cares for your excuses. Nobody pities you for procrastinating. Nobody is going to cuddle you because you are lazy. It’s your ass. You move it.” (From doyoueven.com)
I would add one other thing – When it’s my ass on the line and you don’t move yours to help, you and I are going to meet under not so polite circumstance.
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[…] my previous article “Lawlessness”, I referred to the first amendment to the Constitution and, specifically, the right of peaceable […]
Most of these comments totally miss the point of this article. The point, as I see it, is that many citizens are crossing the line of Constitutional Law that defines peaceful protests. Everyone wants it “their way”. That never happens! I DO believe that adults of the past two generations (and more) have done a grave injustice by not discipling their children and not making them responsible for their actions. Result? All the delightful names you have chosen to call young adults today.
They want to block traffic? Just run them over and be done w/it. Problem solved.
Trump supporters keeping it classy.
A black woman studying at Villanova University was attacked by a group
of white men chanting “Trump! Trump! Trump!” on campus Thursday night.
School officials in Georgia are looking for a student who left a note
for a Muslim teacher telling her she should hang herself with her
“headscarf,” following the election of Donald Trump.
According the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mairah Teli, 24, a language arts teacher at Dacula High in Gwinnett County, discovered the note in her classroom on Friday.
Opening it up it she found it contained two crudely drawn American
flags and the message: “Your headscarf isn’t allowed anymore. Why don’t
you tie it around your neck and hang yourself with it off of your neck
instead of your head.”
The note was signed, “America!”
A Los Angeles area substitute teacher has been fired after a student
recorded him taunting Latino sixth graders about the election of Donald
Trump, telling them their parents were going to be deported, reports NBC4.
According to Jennifer Reynaga, she expected Latino students to be
harassed after the election of Trump who made bashing immigrants,and
Mexicans in particular, a cornerstone of his campaign.
“I would think the kids would do it, but I never thought a teacher would do it,” said Reynaga said in an interview.
The Reynaga family turned over the recording, captured with another
student’s cellphone, to the school district where the unidentified
substitute physical education teacher can be heard speaking to students
at Bret Harte Middle School in South Los Angeles.
“If you were born here, then your parents got to go. Then they will
leave you behind, and you will be in foster care,” the teacher can be
heard telling Reynaga’s 11-year-old daughter.
How terrible. Much worse than the murder of the veteran in Philadelphia by your anti-Trump BLM thugs. My goodness, what hateful things to say. Of course, most of the above could easily have been fake while a dead body is hard to fake. Keep up the baloney, it suits you.
By the way, as long as we are going to speculate, one of the VCU students arrested has the same last name as one of the professors. The last names are Camden.
, not exactly your average name.
Your stories remind me of the story at the University of Missouri where supposedly a swastika was written in excrement on a mirror in a dorm… that set off a storm causing the President of the College to lose his job.
Well if true, that is horrible. But go look at the video of a guy who the crowd assumed was a Trump supporter getting beat up. It is on a video posted on Drudge.
You guys are rioting over a woman who was as corrupt as the day is long losing an election. LOSING AN ELECTION.
So take your baloney and you know what you can do with it…
VCU didnt cancel classes and the trouble started after class hours.
Did a professor or administrator in any way encourage the violence. If so, they are not only representing themselves but the institution.
Okay, “Doctor,” you want lawlessness? Here you are:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-supporters-ram-sign-holding-war-veteran-with-truck-in-politically-motivated-hit-and-run/
An Afghanistan war veteran and anti-Trump protester was intentionally
struck by a car driven by Trump supporters in King, North Carolina on
Election Day. According to Fox 8 News, activist and combat veteran Steven Hewett was holding a “Veterans against Trump” sign when the pro-Trump driver deliberately drove into
Hewett.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/go-back-to-your-country-this-is-trump-land-usps-driver-busted-for-harassing-hispanic-man/
The United States Postal Service is investigating after one of its
drivers allegedly yelled racially charged insults at a Hispanic man in
Cambridge, Mass. Boston Magazine reports that Yarden Katz, a fellow at the Harvard Medical School, witnessed a postal worker telling a Hispanic man that he needed to “go back to your country” because “this is Trump Land” and he wasn’t welcome here any longer.
Welcome to Trump’s America . . . 99 reports of attacks on innocent people by Trump supporters, and the list is growing.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/welcome-to-trumps-america-58-reports-of-people-bullied-by-emboldened-bigots-and-the-list-is-growing/
My own experience from Virginia’s Northern Neck. I drive a big ol’ gas guzzling Ford F250 that’s emblazoned with my favorite bumper stickers and window decals: US Army Retired; Vietnam Veteran; Special Forces; Airborne; Ranger; Proud Democrat; Clinton-Kaine; Remington; Sig-Sauer. Over the past four months, I have been threatened six times by Trump supporters. Today was an example — I was making my weekly run to the dump. Guy pulled in behind me. I drove to the recycle dropoff area. He drove over, got out of his car, and told me “You goddam Democrats should be shot!” I ignored him, he repeated himself two times at which point I asked if he was planning to shoot me. He flashed a couple of middle fingers and cursed. I told him, if he thinks Democrats need to be shot, how about shooting me? He continued cursing then told me he had a pistol in his car. I told him to get it . . . then I told him I have a Colt M1911 .45 in my truck and he’d best get his out first. At that point, he ran to his car and left . . . quickly. And that, “Doctor,” is the bullshit I’ve been putting up with since Trump emerged on the scene. I don’t need your lectures on “lawlessness” until you get your asshole friends under control.
Cool Story Bro, CTR DB entries too. The election is over, go have some pizza.
I could link you a video of a white man being beaten by black thugs who kept saying he voted for Trump. I could also link two more video of two students who were savagely beaten for supporting Trump. So you can attribute this to Trump but I would guess that like the liberal you are you will not recognize the violence being perpatrated by your side. No one rioted, much less protested Obama’s election. As always, the left’s manufactured rallies are an attempt to intimidate and harrass law abiding citizens for exercising their rights. Your a-hole leftist whiners need to reign themselves. It works both ways son.
You also might want to link to the murder of a Philadelphia man by anti-trump BLM thugs. The whole thing is on video and it is pretty brutal. Old Redneck hasnt got the guts to admit that this is his problem. He has to try to shift the blame. Typical leftist anti-American
Ever notice that there aren’t many cars with republican stickers. Am guessing you think that is because nobody supports republicans. Truth is the left believes they have a right to abuse whomever disagrees. Truth is I worked for my property and don’t want one of you thugs damaging it. You are the brown shirts and you will be resisted.
I actually looked at the video of the first incident. The anti-trump protester claimed he was struck. Interestingly, he didn’t move or fall. Also, the vehicle wasn’t speeding up it was slowing down and stopped. In addition, the supposed victim blocked the road – and based on the story there were multiple vehicles moving. Looked like a set-up but the courts will decide. You made the assumption, not proven by the video, that the supposed attack was made by a Trump supporter – there were no words indicating that. So, once again, you are being quite cute with the facts.
The second supposed incident is a claim without any facts at all. Could be true but it boils down to he said vs he said. Nobody was injured and no property damaged. Pretty weal compared to what your thuggish brown shirts are doing around the country.
Time for the real world to slap these special snowflakes in the face.
Arrests, convictions, fines, probation, community service. Prison and felonies for some of the more extreme protesters
My Trump sticker triggered two in front of River City Diner Wednesday morning. My smug grin set them off even further.
I do not think it is fair to inflict them on the rest of society w/community service as punishment. If there ever was a need for re-education camps it would be for the Snowflakes. They wouldn’t last five minutes in prison. Something really needs to be done about the Snowflakes, they are a danger to our communities everywhere on many levels.
I’m against indoctrination camps across the board though. Too easy to be used against innocent people.
What do you think our colleges have become? Parents are paying for their kid to be indoctrinated instead of the gov’t doing it.
And I’m against that.
Portland anti-Trump rioters attack pregnant woman with a baseball bat
Life and karma correct the special snowflakes, We win by just calling them out and triggering them.
Too bad they don’t truly melt into a pool of fluid we can simply sweep away. I have seen some nutty crazy things in my life, but the kids on colleges these days take the cake. It is ridiculous and embarrassing to the country.
Should be made nationwide, not just Iowa.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/iowa-lawmaker-sponsors-suck-buttercup-bill-cuts-funding-schools-excessively-coddle-students/
VCU didn’t cancel classes . . .
The author’s mistake has been corrected. Thanks, Caleb.
Uh, no.
In the fifth paragraph, the author writes about “the closing of VCU”.
That didn’t happen.
And, the author’s tone is repugnant.
Law breaking is repugnant. VCU students were arrested, their actions are repugnant and they should pay for their actions. Apparently, you think that damage and disruption is ok if you don’t get your way. Just another crybaby leftist.
The tone is repugnant? Let me find you some virtual play-doh.
Yeah Berkeley did, don’t know about VCU
Did any professor cancel classes, rschdule exams or suggest demonstrations?
If the DPV is any way involved with this, then they should be included in the lawsuit. Based on Project Veritas video admissions, violent disruptions are specifically orchestrated to undermine campaigns and civil society. Time for these leftist thugs to reap the whirlwind.