The Anarchy Rise-Up of 2020
By Jim Weiss and
Mickey Davis
Protests and riots are making the news in
2020, but they are not new. Neither are groups that employ that type of civil
unrest to try to gain their advantage.
Protests have tended to follow a template in
targeted cities and suburbs which begins during the day with anti-police
protests and the destruction of historical statues, etc. With darkness come trained
and financed hardcore looters, arsonists, stone throwers, assaulters, thieves,
barricaders, and killers, leading to hundreds of police being injured.
Police have the duty to enforce
the laws—and to try to accomplish that so they do not become injured—and so
that the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect, as well as the law breakers
themselves, do not become unnecessarily hurt. Expected at any confrontation are
in-your-face video and still cameras in the hands of the rioters and the media.
And yes, protestors could and can be
expected to have their own lawyers in the crowds in case of future lawsuits.
Early incidents
While a revolutionary philosophy dates
back to the 1880s, the tactics of today were familiar in the 1960 and 1970s
under such group names as the Symbionese Liberation Army,
(SLA), the Black Panther Party, Students for a
Democratic Society (SAS), and the Weathermen.
In the 1960s, multiple major riots took
place. These included race riots in Harlem and Philadelphia; Los Angeles’s
Watts Riot; Cleveland’s Hough riots and later, the Glenville...