This year there have been numerous protests by the Black Lives Matter movement, Antifa, and people who want to defund the police. Crime has been spiking all over due to these “peaceful” protests and with this election, everyone is worried that the losing side is going to start rioting once the winner is decided. So Newt Gingrich has come up with a plan to deal with a violent rioting mob and it’s based on the ideas of President Abraham Lincoln.
“Lincoln, who was only 28 at the time, said this about mobs:
“Whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and bum churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure, and with impunity; depend on it, this Government cannot last.”
“But a far larger class of objects springs from the injustice of men. If one people will make war upon another, it is a necessity with that other to unite and cooperate for defense.
“Hence the military department. If some men will kill, or beat, or constrain others, or despoil them of property, by force, fraud, or noncompliance with contracts, it is a common object with peaceful and just men to prevent it. Hence the criminal and civil departments.”
“In the spirit of President Lincoln, President Trump should issue the following warning to the violent and the lawless:
All honest citizens will be asked to submit video of anyone they see engaged in violence, looting and destruction.
Every business will be asked to share any pictures its security cameras produce of mobs and violence.
Every TV news program will be scrutinized to seek to identify the violent and the destructive.
All police officers will be asked to use their phones to record videos of every violent or destructive person they encounter.
The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security will be tasked with coordinating with state and local authorities to track down, arrest and prosecute the violent, lawless, and criminal.
Those local authorities who refuse to cooperate will have all their federal funding suspended until they are replaced by the voters with people who are anti-criminal and anti-looting.”
It’s sad that our country is struggling like this, where America has become so polarized that people are going to take to the streets if they don’t get their way in this election. We are a democracy, and if our country fails to pick Trump for president it will be tough for a bit, but we will have another chance in four years. We are not babies that need to throw tantrums in the streets. Now if only we could get Liberals to understand that.
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