{"id":39275,"date":"2020-08-03T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/people-do-not-have-the-right-to-riot\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:08:00","slug":"people-do-not-have-the-right-to-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/people-do-not-have-the-right-to-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"#People do not have the right to riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#People do not have the right to riot<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Protesters in Gotham and other cities around the \u00adnation are so used to getting their way, they\u2019ve been spoiled. Their illegal occupation of our streets and parks has \u00adbecome so routine that the protesting class throws tantrums when it faces consequences, however rarely that happ<\/a>ens.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s arrest of Nikki Stone, wanted for alleged serial vandalism of police cameras, was a case in point. The 18-year-old homeless woman was marching in a \u201cpeaceful,\u201d though non-permitted, march down Second Avenue when plainclothes NYPD \u00adofficers arrested her and put her in an unmarked van.<\/p>\n

Stone\u00a0had been filmed on multiple occasions painting over NYPD security cameras around City Hall Park during the last month\u2019s occupation. Her alleged actions suggest a flagrant lawlessness and enmity against the public good.<\/p>\n

Yet Stone became a cause celebre, with supporters claiming she had been \u201cdisappeared,\u201d as if by a right-wing regime in Latin America circa 1982. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: \u201cThere is no excuse for snatching women off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans.\u201d Cable host Chris Hayes\u00a0called it \u201ckidnapping.\u201d<\/p>\n

The City Council\u2019s Progressive Caucus claimed that \u201cthis arrest was a tactic meant to intimidate protesters and discourage civil disobedience.\u201d Lawmakers accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of failing to hold \u201cthe NYPD accountable for the brutality unleashed on those exercising\u201d fundamental rights.<\/p>\n

Back in the real world, plainclothes officers with unmarked cars arrest wanted suspects like Stone\u00a0every day, because it is the most effective way to approach them without tipping them off and letting them escape. It is only \u201ckidnapping\u201d if one \u00adbelieves that law enforcement, operating with judicial warrants, has no authority to bring criminals to court.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the progressive councilmembers radically confuse \u201ccivil disobedience\u201d and \u201cFirst Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The First Amendment protects the right \u201cpeaceably to assemble,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t mean you can block traffic any time you want to. Ask Chris Hayes if you can sit in his MSNBC office or studio for a week in the name of your favorite cause.<\/p>\n

Civil disobedience means \u00adintentionally breaking the law to draw attention to the (alleged) unfairness of the law. But de Blasio has been so spinelessly \u00adindulgent of anti-cop protests, allowing wildcat marches to take place every day, all over the city, that the protesters have come to believe that they have the right to break the law. When confronted, they exhibit the outrage of a pampered toddler denied a toy at nap-time.<\/p>\n

Similarly petulant, VOCAL-NY, a government-funded nonprofit, is stamping its feet because the city is no longer planning to pay for the construction of its new headquarters. VOCAL-NY was the prime mover behind the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d encampment, marches and protests that dominated downtown in the run-up to the city budget deal. The group\u2019s chief organizer, Jawanza James Williams, proudly declared: \u201cWe will occupy. We will not leave here until the mayor listens to us!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

VOCAL-NY receives about $500,000 from the city each year, mostly for drug-abuse-prevention and other health programs.\u00a0Taxpayers didn\u2019t allocate\u00a0money to the group so it could establish an illegal campsite, stage marches across the Brooklyn Bridge,\u00a0harass and attack law \u00adenforcers, destroy public property or demand abolition of the police. Members of the group went to the homes of local politicians, and even the home of Speaker Corey Johnson\u2019s boyfriend, screaming at them.<\/p>\n

When Johnson removed several million dollars in capital spending that had been earmarked for VOCAL-NY to build a new headquarters, the group shrieked that he was being spiteful and violating their constitutional rights: \u201cThere can be no place in New York City\u2019s politics for this kind of attack on our First Amendment rights.\u201d Yeah, cry more.<\/p>\n

VOCAL-NY, like many other ostensible \u201ccharities,\u201d is used to taking millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for explicitly political activity. They\u2019ve gotten used to it \u2014 because no one in charge says no.<\/p>\n

Johnson insists that the money was removed as a fiscal measure and had nothing to do with the way that VOCAL-NY portrayed him as a cop-loving bootlicker during the budget process, embarrassing him ahead of a possible mayoral run, or that they threw paint at his boyfriend\u2019s front door. But VOCAL-NY, and the protesters who want to dictate the time and manner of their arrests and the clothing of their arresting agents, need to relearn a key lesson of toddlerhood: \u00adActions have consequences.<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @SethBarronNYC<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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