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| You Don't Need To Go To Kabul To See The End Of American Order. It's Right Here Among Us |
| 2021-08-26 |
| [The Federalist] The nation’s attention these past two weeks has focused nearly exclusively on Kabul, and rightly so given that the city has become the scene of the largest hostage situation in American history and a vivid image of the decline of Pax Americana abroad. But Americans don’t need to travel 7,500 miles to get a first-hand glimpse of the end of American order. In many of our own country’s major cities, gangs of masked thugs and criminals do what they please — and our far-better-armed police aren’t allowed to stop them and protect the rest of us. Take one August Sunday in Portland, Oregon, where two days ago political gangs roamed freely, beating people, including women, and even opening fire downtown. Meanwhile the police, who have been threatened with government action if they intervene, were nowhere to be seen. The breakdown of law and order was crafted in the offices of politicians, and its results are as immediate as they are sickening: A beautiful port city is now a frequent host to pitched battles between masked and helmeted left- and right-wing mobs spanning across city blocks; paintballs, pepper spray, fireworks, and beatings in broad daylight; and while innocent civilians flee the violence under a cloudy gray sky, the only sounds audible are of rioting — with nary a police siren in the distance. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 But Americans don’t need to travel 7,500 miles to get a first-hand glimpse of the end of American order. This doesn't have to happen. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-08-26 10:35 |
| #1 The big problem is, when city hall tells the cops to lay off the violent criminals, they turn their franchise on the rest of us. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-26 05:53 |