Chaos and hate at the heart of anti-cop subway protests (opinion) – SILive.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. This is the world that the radical left wants for us.

No policing.

Vandalism.

Chaos.

New York City saw it in all its ugliness on Friday. That was the day that protest group Decolonize This Place sparked protests in the city subway system.

The main target of their animus? The NYPD, of course. They want the cops out of the subway. So that the subway can become even more lawless than its already becoming.

The group also wants the $2.75 transit fare eliminated. Not a bad goal. Once you figure out how to pay to keep the subways and buses running. How you pay for increased service. How you pay the workers. Free transit isnt much good if it doesnt actually work.

Were heard a lot of talk about anti-Semitic violence lately. And white supremacists who put fliers up. Racist groups with possible foreign ties. And rightly so. The world doesnt belong to them or their twisted, backward ideologies either.

Lets see the same level of outrage over the havoc that Decolonize and their fellow travelers wreaked in the subway on Friday.

Emergency exits were jammed open. OMNY and swipe fare-collection devices were damaged with superglue (they call that creative sabotage). Graffiti was sprayed on subway walls, including F**k The Police and NYPD KKK and Racist MTA. A large protest banner was unfurled at the Oculus transit hub in Lower Manhattan.

The groups message, seen in a video thats all over Twitter, was simple: The streets are ours. The trains are ours. The walls are ours. They pledged to f**k s**t up.

Social media was full of scenes of disorder and destruction. And hate.

Its like the early 1970s again, when radical groups protested against the government, the military and big business. Even the language sounds the same. Calling police piggies. Dubbing the protest a day of action and a mobilization. Talking about law enforcement repression.

All those old Weather Underground terrorists still with us must be jumping out of their chairs cheering. Whats next? Bombs in post offices?

And who suffers? The commuters. Who have enough trouble dealing with mass transit as it is. Who face hours of delays because a bed bug is found in a subway control tower. These are the very people that these protest groups claim to champion. This is how they treat them?

Protest is their right. Bravo. But dont expect me to applaud, particularly when they link their fare protest to hatred of cops. Or when they damage infrastructure that all of us rely on.

The radical left is coming into its own after more than a decade of momentum. We saw big protests against the Iraq War. We saw Occupy Wall Street in 2011. The Black Lives Matter movement added fuel to fire. The election of Donald Trump turned the flame way up.

And its had an impact. Just look at whos at the top of the field for the Democratic presidential nomination: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a democratic socialist who calls for nothing less than revolution. Hes says hes against the establishment. Hes against the banks and the health insurance companies. The drug makers. The rich. All the robber barons. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a top Sanders supporter, is even more radical.

Will ordinary Americans embrace the chaos? Do they really want to overthrow the status quo that much? Thats whats on the agenda in this presidential election year.

The protests can also be laid right at the feet of Mayor Bill de Blasio, a onetime supporter of the repressive Sandinistas, and lawmakers who have basically made it a crime for police to arrest offenders, particularly those of color.

Theyve eliminated enforcement of quality-of-life offenses. Theyve closed Rikers Island. Theyve sympathized with anti-police protestors. Theyve done away with bail, putting dangerous criminals back on the streets. Anybody arrested during these transit protests will likely face zero consequences for their actions.

Now were seeing the utopia that the left would build for us, one full of chaos, division and hate. Replacing the old boss with a just-as-repressive new boss.

Not my America.

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