Spineless Elitists Enable, Empower Mob Rule
By: Bill Donohue
Our bicoastal urban elites are not only allowing this to happen they are enabling it and their limousine liberal friends are actually cheering them on. Judeo-Christian beliefs and the 10 commandments are the basis of western civilization so it’s no wonder that godless secular progressives are at the forefront of the effort to remove all references to religion, beliefs, and values from the nation and from our founding which was by divine providence. They attack the founders because they aspired to the idea that all mankind was created equal by God and that God is the source and author of all our human rights, not the state or a king.
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The smashing of religious statues is all the rage. While the extent of the vandalism is new, the ideological forces that unleashed it started a generation ago.
If there is one date that marks the beginning of this crusade it is January 15, 1987.
That was the day when Rev. Jesse Jackson marched with hundreds of protesters on the campus of Stanford University screaming , "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go." They were protesting a humanities program known as "Western Culture."
The demonstrators insisted it must be shelved, claiming it lacked "diversity."
The multicultural assault on Western civilization has only gotten worse.
Pope Benedict XVI noted that this politicization of higher education has led to "a peculiar Western self-hatred that is nothing short of pathological."
Now it's in full throttle, and the results are in the street.
It's impossible to attack Western civilization without attacking its Judeo-Christian heritage.
The left knows this and it is this hatred that is animating its activism. The mob has been very busy as of late.
Shaun King wants all statues of Jesus and Mary taken down.
Though this Black activist does not teach at Harvard Law School, he has been granted office space there to promote his agenda. Jesus "and his European mother," as he likes to say, represent "a gross form of white supremacy."
Ironically, King's birth certificate identifies his father as white, a fact that has not gone down well with his open-minded friends at Black Lives Matter.
Protesters in St. Louis don't like the city's namesake and want it removed (imagine if they lived in Corpus Christi!). Swastikas and anti-Catholic scribbling was found on the graves of several Dominican friars; their headstones are located on the campus of Providence College.
Statues of Saint Junípero Serra, who championed Indian rights, have been smashed in several towns in California. The mob is also going after non-Catholics.
Salinas, California is mandating that an evangelical church sell its downtown property, arguing that it doesn't fit in with the town's new look.
A memorial fountain in Santa Rosa dedicated to survivors of the Holocaust was partially destroyed a few weeks ago. A statue of Brigham Young was vandalized on the university campus that is named after the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In Montana, a man attached a chain to his pickup truck and pulled down a Ten Commandments monument, leaving what was left of it on the street.
The mob is comprised of nihilists.
Unlike the Marxists of old, who had a blueprint for the future (flawed though it was), today's activists just want to tear down. Most of them cannot seriously endorse communism any more (though Black Lives Matter still does), and they cannot point to Eastern civilization as worthy of emulation.
Having no ideology or cultural model to offer, they settle for destroying our Judeo-Christian heritage.
None of this is inevitable.
It happens because, with few exceptions, our spineless elites are capitulating to their demands all across the country. Make no mistake about it, they would stand up to white supremacists (which they should), but they will not stand up to these left-wing anarchists.
Many of these decision makers are simply cowards, but not all of them: some are literally cheering the nihilists on.
In a free society, if people don't police themselves, the police will do it for them.
And if the police are enfeebled, the result is mob rule. There really aren't too many choices.
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There are a lot of loud voices powered by thoughtless minds who get their self-esteem by ignorantly attacking things they don't understand. And of course they have no clue about improvements or alternatives. That would require a mindset that builds things instead of tearing them down.