Mob rule and intimidation

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One of the biggest fears of the United States’ founding fathers was pure democracy — also known as mob rule. That is why they gave us a federal democratic republic with the checks and balances of three branches of government.

In fact, the word “democracy” does not appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution.

Political battles in America should be won at the ballot box, not through mob rule and intimidation.

According to Wikepedia, “mob rule” or ochlocracy is the rule of a mass of people and the intimidation of legitimate authorities.

One danger of a pure democracy is the majority pushing the minority around and taking away their rights.

Christians are reminded of this every Easter Sunday. The four New Testament Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — each describes the “Passion of Christ.”

One similarity of all four Gospels is the mob scene. It is clear that Pontius Pilate, the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea during the time of Jesus Christ, saw no crime worth putting Jesus to death on the cross. It was the mob that Pilate was intimidated by. The mob — incited by the Jewish leaders and chief priests — called for his crucifixion.

You don’t have to look far for other examples of mob rule throughout history. During the 1690s, in colonial Massachusetts, mobs executed 20 they believed were practicing witchcraft — the devil’s magic.

Many times those in a mob do not want their identities known. The Ku Klux Klan hid their faces with a white pointed hood to intimidate and lynch blacks. From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to records maintained by NAACP.

Intimidation by mob is still practiced today. This can be seen in the radical far left-group Antifa — who also covers their face when they attack.

Last month Antifa activists hit observers with clubs at a “Detransition Awareness Day” rally in Sacramento, Calif. Four journalists were reportedly assaulted as they documented the chaos.

Intimidation by a mob is continually used by the far left.

Last week, Riley Gaines, a leading defender of women’s rights in America and former NCAA swimmer, was assaulted and held hostage for three hours by a violent mob after she spoke at a Turning Point USA event at San Francisco State University.

This is an example of what the left calls “cancel campaigns,” which are formed to stop conservative views from being heard on college campuses nationwide.

Recently the Stanford Federalist Society invited Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to speak on campus. Liberal students felt that allowing a conservative judge to speak on campus was unbearable. Video evidence shows the students refusing to enable Duncan to speak by shouting him down. The judge then asked an administrator to calm the crowd and allow him to speak.

When Stanford DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach came to the microphone, she verbally attacked the judge to the delight of the student mob.

Where are the local Democrat voters who think this is appropriate?

In a similar instance, when conservative law professor Josh Blackman was stopped from speaking about “the importance of free speech,” City University of New York Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek insisted that disrupting the speech on free speech was free speech.

Fox News contributor George Washington University professor and practicing criminal defense attorney Jonathan Turley summed it up well, “Free speech is now often portrayed as harmful and threatening to the safety of the community.”

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Correction: My father issued a formal complaint concerning his mention in my column dated April 5. I made an assumption that he is protesting. I remember being pulled out from under the bed as I tried to escape what was probably my only form of corporal punishment as a child. Not wanting to portray him as a child molester, and since his memory of the event is perhaps better than mine, I will concede that he did not use his belt on my behind. It was just his hand. Hopefully, that will keep child services from filing a charge.