Millions turned out to protest immigration reform yesterday. There are some very basic questions I’d like the mainstream media to ask, starting with who’s paying for the flags, the permits, and the crowd control? The Ford Foundation?
More important, what happens if and when a group of moron skinheads (or agents provocateurs masquerading as same) decides that they’ve taken all they can stand and wades into a group like the one in Dallas yesterday (above) and starts swinging or shooting? How can the police possibly control a crowd of half a million?
I fear that one small spark can turn this protest movement violent. There are people on both sides of this issue who want exactly that.
The answer to the question of crowd control is unpleasant, but simple: The same way the Chinese brought the crowd at Tianemen Square under control; the same way order was restored in New Orleans after Katrina: The military. Martial law.
This is going to be an interesting summer.
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[...] Derek Gilbert asks a few good questions of his own, Andy Heyman blames the rich and makes a good point, and Rosemary Esmay successfully argues, in my opinion, that the law is the law, to break the law is criminal, and everything else is beside the point. [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
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