Ruins after the American "peaceful protests"

The White House refused to send emergency funding to the state of Minnesota to help rebuild the city of Minneapolis. Severe, but true: inept leadership, in principle, should not be compensated by money from the pocket of taxpayers.

Last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz probably took the most unpleasant step in his entire political career.

He desperately needed money: after the “peaceful protests” of the movement “The lives of black people matter” (BLM) from a large part of Minneapolis, the largest city in the state, ruins and ashes remained.

To begin the restoration work, the Democratic governor asked Donald Trump for $ 500 million. And if the president’s refusal surprised him, he probably didn’t need to go into politics at all.

However, Trump’s refusal cannot simply be attributed to a fierce inter-party confrontation. The reaction of the Minnesota authorities to the protests that began after the death of George Floyd on May 25 is a textbook example of how you should not appease a crowd, which in principle cannot be pacified.

The wave of peaceful demonstrations against police arbitrariness was quickly saddled by rebel elements aimed at the mass destruction of property, and it became clear that the city and state leadership had no plan of action at all - apart from such a willingness to surrender the city center to vandals.

“Media: President Trump REFUSED to allot $ 500 million to repair the damage suffered by Minneapolis during the riots. Do you support this decision? ”

“I live in Minneapolis and agree: it is not necessary that the federal authorities pay for the restoration. The reason is our incompetent Governor Tim Waltz and Mayor Frey. Of course, this means that they will introduce even heavier taxes for us. The liberals act in their own spirit: to allow destruction and violence, then look for someone else to eliminate the consequences. "

I live in Minneapolis & I agree we should not have the Feds pay for our rebuilding. This is on our inept. @ GovTimWalz & wimpy. @ MayorFrey. Of course that means they will tax us even more heavily. Typical Liberals: allow destruction & violence, then look for others to fix it all.

Correctly spelled: П-О-Г-Р-О-М-Ы

Two days after Floyd's death, it turned out that the American media (for one of their well-known reasons) were unable to pronounce or write the simple word "pogrom" - as a description of the ensuing chaos. Perhaps the insincerity of the media, firmly tied to political correctness, has given courageous courage to continue their own version of the "march of sorrow."

One way or another, the situation worsened so much that firefighters refused to go on calls without police officers, who in any case did not have much help, since the crowd was hunting for the police.

Local businessmen, who were not seduced by the idea of ​​losing what they had been working on all their lives, were forced to guard their enterprises with rifles in their hands - a la Wild West.

And the cherry on this cake, which came out of the infernal bakery, was the destruction of police station No. 3 - after it, by order of the mayor Jacob Frey, the law enforcers left.

In the midst of this incredible collapse of the rule of law, Trump expressed his readiness to provide Minneapolis with "the presence of troops on the ground very quickly if they want the help of our military." Given all the circumstances, such a proposal on his part looked very kind. But the left, of course, did not like the idea that a Republican leader would help suppress racial unrest in a large democratic state. Moreover, in the year of important elections.

Be that as it may, Governor Waltz has already assigned the Minnesota National Guard to solve the problem. However, the one, as it turned out, was not particularly able to act. The New York Times wrote that Waltz "expressed surprise at the fact that the city authorities did not seem to have a plan where to send fighters."

I would venture to express a vague guess that, for a start, strength and means should be thrown to the place where robberies and buildings burned. What is the point of distracting the guards from carrying out everyday tasks if no one has a clue where to send them? How can such political incompetence be explained?

Excessive political correctness or banal stupidity?

Most likely, local managers imagined that since they allowed the crowd to burn down the city police station and dozens of other buildings, her anger and discontent would simply dissolve in the smoky haze. If the calculation really was on this, it turned out to be catastrophically wrong.

In addition, some of the most radical protesters (which, it seems, lacked) felt so confident that they put forward outrageous demands to the authorities to deprive the city police of funding or even its dissolution. It is akin to shutting down pharmacies in the flu season itself.

It is tempting to say in response that the lack of appropriate action against troublemakers in Minnesota, as well as in cities across the country, was dictated by the fear of the authorities to further infuriate the crowd.

In some places, for example, in New York, out of a desire to meet the ambiguous requirements put forward by various organizations, not least BLM and antifa, the authorities adorned the streets with giant inscriptions “The lives of black people matter”. Few people will argue with this statement, but when it comes to the decision-making process, it seems that too many political leaders have lost all sense of proportion - but what is there, a sense of duty. Too many, when it is required to enforce the law, are afraid that they will be branded "haters."

The sluggish reaction to the unrest in Minnesota, from the media’s reluctance to call a spade a spade to the authorities’ unwillingness to take appropriate measures against outright criminality, seems to confirm the herd instinct is gradually gaining the upper hand over law and order.

The problem of police arbitrariness deserves serious public discussion, but the final answer should be reasonable, and not result in the destruction of the very streets that George Floyd once walked with the complete detachment of the police.

Whether they want it or not, political leaders should feel personal responsibility for their actions. If Trump succumbed and counted out to Minnesota hundreds of millions of dollars for nothing more than negligent non-response to crime, other cities and states would have adopted the same careless approach.

Now they will have to think about their actions properly. American taxpayers should not be required to reward incompetence, and political leaders, in turn, should not make decisions that are based solely on how to acquire political capital. Law is law, and no one should consider himself superior to it. 

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