RABBLE ROUSERS NEED TO BE MARGINALIZED NOT ENCOURAGED

RABBLE ROUSERS NEED TO BE MARGINALIZED NOT ENCOURAGED

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D.  Traditional Realist

Life is full of instances of being wronged. It can be a family member, friend, stranger or public official that has grieved us. Prejudice is faced by most of us. One’s height, weight, gender, facial features, religion, politics, skin color, ethnic roots, race as well as personal preferences in clothing, food or music can cause it. Whatever is the cause of the discrimination, it is part of human nature and is real.

People who fixate on these unfair, inappropriate and even serious injustices are limiting their future development. These people live in the past using a past discriminatory incident as an excuse for one’s failure to overcome a common human failing. It becomes a formula for being left behind, a loser.

Too many “community leaders” agitate groups of alienated people to increase their own power base.  These rabble-rousers do not solve problems but blow them up. A self proclaimed leader pitting one group against another is playing with fire that can cause greater injustice and devastation to the group and destabilize the entire society.

The French Revolution of 1789 was supposed to correct real social inequality. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” was a slogan that resonated with the poor and aspiring middle class. By some instigators using disinformation, false promises, malice, envy, jealousy and exaggerated abuse a mob mentality took on a life of its own. During this “social justice” upheaval, 40,000 people were guillotined, 300,000 were executed and millions more were murdered. The underlying problems were worsened, not solved.

  The Ku Klux Klan arose from ashes of the American Civil War.  These KKK members, during Reconstruction used inciting language and acts of terror to impose fear and hatred on the “emancipated” blacks. They employed these tactics to make blacks submit to their will. This again did not lead to solutions to integrate blacks into society but further divided the people in the south.

In 1891, a jury of their peers found nine Sicilian immigrants innocent of murdering police chief, Dennis Hennessy. These nine men and two other Italians were pulled out of the jail by a mob and lynched. This happened after local political leaders agitated the populace into mob frenzy. This was the largest mass lynching in the USA. Yet this ethnic group did not turn to rioting but to individual perseverance to succeed regardless of the injustices they received.

                                           

Mob violence under the guise of social justice does not serve anyone’s interest. When a specific person is tried by a jury of peers and found innocent or guilty of a crime, justice is served better than any other known system. The Ferguson, MO grand jury found there was no basis for indicting Darren Wilson. There was strong forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts that corroborated Wilson’s testimony.

However, when people are encouraged to blame all their problems that they face on being a certain ethnic group or race then we have created a potential time bomb for mass hysteria. There cannot be social justice or stability by resorting to mass chaos.

Rioting and looting and destruction of building and businesses is not a strategy for seeking justice. It is a way of satisfying base urges and instincts while illegally obtaining goods. It hurts the very community where the rioters and looters live.

Rabble-rousers have existed since there was rabble to rouse. Al Sharpton and others of this ilk should be exposed as the charlatans they are. They are destroyers, not creators of a more just and equitable community. Certainly Sharpton should not have been invited to the White House to share his thoughts on how to prevent future outbursts.  

President Obama bringing Rev. Sharpton to the White House sent the wrong message to the rioters. The focus of the conference was to place the blame on the Ferguson police department’s tactics and poor community relationships rather than squarely on progressive activists, professional rioters from across the country and opportunistic looters. Many of the organizers of the riots throughout the country were leaders in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and other leftist causes.

People of all ethnic groups and socioeconomic levels are witnessing with their own eyes the results of the work done by these conveyers of hate. These individuals should be exposed for the self-promoting agitators dividing rather than bringing people together to exist in harmony and peace.

Only by shining light on their obvious lies and actions can they be seen for what they are- nothing but the same old intellectual haters of self-reliance, freedom and American exceptionalism. “Burn, baby, burn” is their perverted Marxist view of America.

Our president should not certify a forum to foment the seeds of a progressive revolution. He should denounce rabble rousers for destabilizing our nation. President Obama should use this educational moment to communicate to the people the difficulty of law enforcement officers in making split second decisions to enforce the law.

RABBLE ROUSERS NEED TO BE MARGINALIZED NOT ENCOURAGED

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D.  Traditional Realist

Life is full of instances of being wronged. It can be a family member, friend, stranger or public official that has grieved us. Prejudice is faced by most of us. One’s height, weight, gender, facial features, religion, politics, skin color, ethnic roots, race as well as personal preferences in clothing, food or music can cause it. Whatever is the cause of the discrimination, it is part of human nature and is real.

People who fixate on these unfair, inappropriate and even serious injustices are limiting their future development. These people live in the past using a past discriminatory incident as an excuse for one’s failure to overcome a common human failing. It becomes a formula for being left behind, a loser.

Too many “community leaders” agitate groups of alienated people to increase their own power base.  These rabble-rousers do not solve problems but blow them up. A self proclaimed leader pitting one group against another is playing with fire that can cause greater injustice and devastation to the group and destabilize the entire society.

The French Revolution of 1789 was supposed to correct real social inequality. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” was a slogan that resonated with the poor and aspiring middle class. By some instigators using disinformation, false promises, malice, envy, jealousy and exaggerated abuse a mob mentality took on a life of its own. During this “social justice” upheaval, 40,000 people were guillotined, 300,000 were executed and millions more were murdered. The underlying problems were worsened, not solved.

  The Ku Klux Klan arose from ashes of the American Civil War.  These KKK members, during Reconstruction used inciting language and acts of terror to impose fear and hatred on the “emancipated” blacks. They employed these tactics to make blacks submit to their will. This again did not lead to solutions to integrate blacks into society but further divided the people in the south.

In 1891, a jury of their peers found nine Sicilian immigrants innocent of murdering police chief, Dennis Hennessy. These nine men and two other Italians were pulled out of the jail by a mob and lynched. This happened after local political leaders agitated the populace into mob frenzy. This was the largest mass lynching in the USA. Yet this ethnic group did not turn to rioting but to individual perseverance to succeed regardless of the injustices they received.

                                           

Mob violence under the guise of social justice does not serve anyone’s interest. When a specific person is tried by a jury of peers and found innocent or guilty of a crime, justice is served better than any other known system. The Ferguson, MO grand jury found there was no basis for indicting Darren Wilson. There was strong forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts that corroborated Wilson’s testimony.

However, when people are encouraged to blame all their problems that they face on being a certain ethnic group or race then we have created a potential time bomb for mass hysteria. There cannot be social justice or stability by resorting to mass chaos.

Rioting and looting and destruction of building and businesses is not a strategy for seeking justice. It is a way of satisfying base urges and instincts while illegally obtaining goods. It hurts the very community where the rioters and looters live.

Rabble-rousers have existed since there was rabble to rouse. Al Sharpton and others of this ilk should be exposed as the charlatans they are. They are destroyers, not creators of a more just and equitable community. Certainly Sharpton should not have been invited to the White House to share his thoughts on how to prevent future outbursts.  

President Obama bringing Rev. Sharpton to the White House sent the wrong message to the rioters. The focus of the conference was to place the blame on the Ferguson police department’s tactics and poor community relationships rather than squarely on progressive activists, professional rioters from across the country and opportunistic looters. Many of the organizers of the riots throughout the country were leaders in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and other leftist causes.

People of all ethnic groups and socioeconomic levels are witnessing with their own eyes the results of the work done by these conveyers of hate. These individuals should be exposed for the self-promoting agitators dividing rather than bringing people together to exist in harmony and peace.

Only by shining light on their obvious lies and actions can they be seen for what they are- nothing but the same old intellectual haters of self-reliance, freedom and American exceptionalism. “Burn, baby, burn” is their perverted Marxist view of America.

Our president should not certify a forum to foment the seeds of a progressive revolution. He should denounce rabble rousers for destabilizing our nation. President Obama should use this educational moment to communicate to the people the difficulty of law enforcement officers in making split second decisions to enforce the law.