Liberalism On Display: Baltimore

When did we, as a nation, tolerate our elected officials giving their tacit, if not overt, stamp of approval on rioting and destruction of both public and private property, the assaulting of civilians and police, and a general disregard for the safety of our fellow citizens?

Baltimore's mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, through her actions and decisions  - more properly, her lack of action and poor decisions and her own words - has virtually guaranteed the destruction of large swaths of the city she swore an oath to protect.

These are "protests" no longer. These are riots - with the wanton and meaningless chaos and destruction that that word implies. What's going on in Baltimore should disgust anyone with a brain.

The worst part about it - and the lesson that was apparently not learned from Ferguson - is that WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED YET. Nobody knows how Freddie Gray received the spinal injuries that led to his death. If the police were responsible - and I sincerely hope they weren't - then all involved need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Period.

Legitimate protesting is freedom of speech. No one would dispute that. Rioting, however, is not. Not even under the loosest possible interpretation of the 1st amendment.

The mayor of Baltimore needs to be removed from office and prosecuted for failing to uphold the law or provide the protection Baltimore residents deserve - and the sooner, the better.

By the way, Mayor Rawlings-Blake actually denied giving looters permission to destroy by claiming the press "mischaracterized" her words.

Because apparently video cameras and other recording devices don't exist in her version of reality. ~ Hunter