RIOTING IS OVER THE LINE FOR PROTESTING

RIOTING IS OVER THE LINE FOR PROTESTING

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

President Obama was a community activist before he entered the national political arena. He learned as a community organizer how to use non-violent means to influence the changing of public policy. His ability to persuade through his oratory skills, not inciting violence was his methodology of choice to get his follower’s grievances addressed. The protest he encouraged and implemented were peaceful.

His silence about violent actions in the guise of protesting is troubling and confusing. In his November 2016 joint press conference with Germany’s Chancellor

Angela Merkel, he stated that, “I’ve been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years. And I suspect that there’s not a president in our history that at some point hasn’t been subject to these protests. People who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the campaign, I wouldn’t advise them to be silent. What I would advise, what I advised before the election and what I will continue to advise after the election is that elections matter.”

President Obama’s statement is puzzling as it fails to mention that many of the actions of the protestors are illegal and violent. Americans understand that they are privileged to live in a free nation where citizens have the right to free speech and assembly. Thus they do not and should not remain silent if they desire their voice be heard through a peaceful protest but not a violent one.

The mob violence we have witnessed in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, MD where 108 participants in a so-called protest were arrested for their violent behavior. The vicious beating of a white male who displayed a Trump sticker was also not an acceptable means of protest.  It was an uncalled for assault on a citizen’s free speech. The looting of businesses and burning of buildings is not a “street party” but a series of criminal acts against law and order.

 President Obama’s advice of tolerance towards protestors is ironic since he had little of it when opposed by civil protestors. The Tea Party movement was a peaceful protest against his progressive policies that were attempting to erode traditional moral values. There was never a hint of violence in any of those Tea Party demonstrations yet President Obama openly mocked and ridiculed them.

His own vice president, Joe Biden, called Tea Party members “terrorists.” President Obama’s support of the Tea Party’s right to express its viewpoints would have gone a long way in establishing his credentials as the president of all the people. His underwhelming support of honorable public servants, and police officers who do an incredibly complex and dangerous job did nothing to tamp down resentment and violence. No administration should cater to one group over another. We are supposed to be a nation where justice is equal for everyone. There have been police officers killed nearly every day, up significantly from 2015 numbers, which demonstrated the president’s policy of silence toward these violent hoodlums is not working. The policy of allowing rioters to “blow off steam” is a license to encourage more, not less destruction.

Peaceful protest against a politician or policy is protected under our Bill of Rights and has been a hallmark of our freedom of speech. When the protests turn violent it crosses the line into lawlessness. Chaos is not allowed or condoned by any viable government. It leads to more forceful attacks and greater violence. The violence shuts down free speech leaving only brute force to determine who will be in control.

Violence should not and cannot be tolerated as a legitimate means of protest as it will spread like a brushfire overtaking the structural underpinnings of a stable society.

America should let it’s voice be heard and not be silent. It is part of our Constitution, Bill of Rights and tradition to have these freedoms and rights. The fact is regardless of some political official’s sentiments citizens have no right to violence or other lawlessness.

America is a nation based on law and order. Any lawless act threatens the safety and stability of us all.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.

KAPERNICK'S IGNORANCE OF TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT IS UNDERSTANDABLE NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S

KAPERNICK ‘S IGNORANCE OF TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT IS  UNDERSTANDABLE NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S 

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

Recently Colin Kapernick became a media celebrity as a multi millionaire- professional quarterback with a dubious ability to win big games. He has lost six games in a row for his team. His major rise to media prominence occurred after he refused to stand for the National Anthem by “taking a knee” at the beginning of a game. He was immediately given a national forum to spout his ignorance about the nation that allows him freedom to speak his drivel while receiving a vast salary for merely playing a game. Kapernick demonstrated his profound lack of knowledge and understanding of recent world events.

Cuba, according to him, is a great political model for the world to emulate. Where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were great revolutionaries and freedom fighters for the people. They established a fair and equitable society where everybody receives free healthcare, welfare and education services. These are supposed to be far superior to what we receive in the USA. It is where peace and tranquility are in abundance. It is a country where a single US dollar is so valuable in this poverty-stricken nation that it is immediately taken off the market and replaced with useless Cuban pesos. Kapernick even gave praise like another genius: basketball freak, Dennis Rodman, did to the greatness of North Korea’s wonderful society.

More devastating to the state of our society is that many “educated and media savvy people are also incredibly misinformed. The propaganda in the media and the indoctrination in higher education is so prevalent that many young college students and many 1960 anti-establishment hippies who have grown older but not wiser have perpetuated the socialist/communist propaganda in their elite positions.

Fidel Castro, probably killed more citizens per capita than did Stalin. The ultimate hero of these leftist advocates, Che Guevera, prolifically and joyfully executed many without due process. Che killed hundreds of innocent people by shooting them point blank in the head. He was a sadistic thug not a principled, humane person. His smiling face is seen on the shirts worn by middle to upper class utopian dreamers throughout the world.

North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un is also a brutal totalitarian. Kapernick’s anti government rants would end abruptly in North Korea when he was  unceremoniously killed. There is no 1st Amendment or any other laws to protect the people of North Korea or in most other countries of the world.

It is amazing that our university professors and most top commentators in the progressive media still express romantic sentiments of communist Cuba and even when discussing the historical Soviet Union. They gushed with admiration and love about the equality and political freedom of these failed experiments. It is torturous to be forced to listen to them just to get a college diploma.

President Obama’s formal statement concerning the passing of Fidel Castro is more bewildering than Kapernick and other delusional people. The President is a highly educated person who has firsthand interaction and knowledge of world leaders. Yet, he made this announcement not only to citizens of the US but the entire world. “At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing…, recalling countless ways Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families and the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and the world around him.” This sounds like a tribute to this brutal dictator.  

President Obama spoke these words while Cuban exiles gleefully rushed into Miami streets in order to celebrate Castro’s demise. For over 60 years, these exiles and tens of thousands of others have risked their lives to escape the poverty and firing squads of Cuba to experience freedom and opportunity in the USA. There is no doubt in the minds of the average past and present Cuban residents how to “judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and the world around him.” Fidel Castro was a horrendous, evil, despot to most of the Cuban people.

The members of Cuba’s ‘communist elite and other nation’s dictatorial elites would have an 180 degree opposite opinion. They would see him as a great revolutionary leader who “altered the course of individual lives, families and the Cuban nation” for equality, social justice and the welfare of the people.

Kapernick’s positive feelings for Fidel and Cuba are easy to understand. He is a product of our alt-left higher education and state media who glorify leftist statist nations.

President Obama’s reluctance to accurately describe Fidel’s actions is not the result of a lack of pertinent knowledge. He well knows the reality of this regime.  Perhaps it could be attributed to his belief that these atrocities committed by Fidel are short term, necessary means on his march to unify the family of nations into a one-world community of nations.  According to some, this fantastic accomplishment would justify the temporary drastic means to reach this unobtainable goal of eternal peace and equality for all.

Whatever the thinking process of President Obama and even Colin Kapernick, all patriotic Americans should cheer, “good riddance” to this brutal, murderous dictator’s demise.