The editors of the Washington Post are outraged that so-called “protesters” are picketing and defacing Nancy Pelosi’s home:
VANDALS RANG in the new year in vile fashion at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) San Francisco residence. They deposited a severed pig’s head in her driveway shortly after midnight Friday and defaced her garage door with slogans related to their ostensible political demands: $2,000 stimulus payments and “cancel rent!â€
The attack was part of an often troubling trend toward targeting the homes of politicians and other public figures, of all persuasions, for political protest. The same night that Ms. Pelosi’s home was hit, hostile graffiti also appeared on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) Louisville front door. In New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has faced repeated picketing of his home in the town of Newfields, led by right-wing opponents of a statewide coronavirus-related mask mandate. Some of the picketers have been armed. Mr. Sununu has canceled his outdoor inauguration ceremony planned for Thursday over concerns the protesters would appear there, too.
It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Although conduct is not speech dignifying bad or even criminal conduct as exercises of freedom of speech has consequences. When months of arson and defacing of public property are rationalized as “peaceful demonstrations” it’s only a small step to arson and defacing of private party and another to assault.
The place to stop is before you step onto the slippery slope. We’re getting back to the level of civil disorder that preceded the American Civil WAr.
Sorry, I don’t approve of attacks on civil serpent’s homes, but let’em hire private security.
Fakers and swindlers want to get rich pretending to “fight for us all”.
They can use some of that money to hire security.