There’s an implied, sociopathic dare. The game being “You won’t do what’s needed, despite our alarming and menacing behaviour, because you’re nicer than us, less vain, and not unhinged, and so we can dominate you and terrorise you, and break your stuff, for as long as we want, for shits and giggles.”
Well. I would suggest that the activists’ own actions render their wellbeing of very low importance.
A terribly modern moral problem. Answers on a postcard, please.
For too long it was the side that wants to win that always beat the side that wants to be left alone. The time has come for the latter to fight back, good and hard if need be.
I think the driver was a woman. She had every right to be terrified.
Hit the horn and go has become the new standard. If civil society won’t protect us, we must do it ourselves.
Surrounded by a mob trying to break your windows and get at you?
As the old saying goes, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
FAFO is a four letter word like what the instigator used after finding out.
Situation and commentary remind me of a video of two off-duty British soldiers who drove into the wrong area of Belfast during the “Troubles”. They were blocked and stopped and dragged out of their car. Their bodies were found shortly after.
Spare a thought for James Fields in Charlottesville, who was facing similar circumstances among a really hostile crowd.
Let us ask Reginald Denny for advice of what to do in this situation.