A Short Discourse on Vigilantism. While We Wait.

As we wait for the jury to decide the fate of vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse, let's talk about vigilantism, dear liberals.

Because, as with most things, I suspect that your literally know nothing when it comes to vigilantism, except of course that it is always and everywhere racist because lynchings of Negroes in the South.

I last wrote about vigilantism back in July 2021, descanting upon the "real simple" fact that if you "defund the police" you get vigilantism.

The classic case of vigilantism is San Francisco in 1856 in the middle of the Gold Rush of the '49ers. The population of San Francisco had exploded from about 500 to 20,000 and the police were overwhelmed. So leading citizens formed a Committee of Vigilance, and got banker William T. Sherman to help out. Sherman had gone to West Point and served in the US Army until 1853.

That's what citizens do when the po-lice can't or won't do its job.

As I re-read my July piece I was surprised that I had also written about a recent vigilante incident in South Africa arising out of riots and looting that were clearly started by real insurrectionists. It started on a Monday with 

small groups of saboteurs entered the malls... [then] literally tens of thousands of otherwise quite ordinary, peaceful people poured into the malls on foot and by car and completed the looting and firing of the shops. 

Then the vigilantes kicked in.

My community’s Whatsapp groups and local news channels kept pace with the mayhem and at mid-afternoon on Monday the expected call went out for all armed citizens to gather at designated points... The State had gone AWOL.

Within 24 hours, a functioning operational command had been set up, barricades were erected at six access points and stickers issued to emergency workers to speed progress. 

Whoa. I mean whoa. Did you read about this, all you liberals, lefties and all the ships at sea? Because this could easily happen here. The men of America would just love the chance to swing into action and Whatsapp and reestablish the peace that the government is supposed to provide, but increasingly doesn't. Because racism, or police brutality or whatever.

I would say that if this happens, you lefties are done. Toast. History. So, if you want to remain the noble and educated ruling class that is master of all it surveys I suggest that you reverse course on "defund the police" and put the po-lice back to work.

Kyle Rittenhouse, that Dov Fischer calls "a bit of a fool," was just doing what comes naturally to every young primate male. His job, his only job, is to protect the territory of the primate band from enemies. By the way, it sounds like Kyle is a German American. Did you know that in World War II it was reckoned that a German soldier was worth up to two US soldiers? Part of that is that German society is a high-trust society as indicated in Trust by Francis Fukuyama.

And the more that you lefties trash the police and the military and make the men that protect us into scapegoats the more that young men will instinctively start to form themselves into vigilante groups to keep the peace.