Action and Reaction

Steyn On-line ^ | June 19, 2017 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

It is foolish and complacent to assume that the most effective techniques will remain forever the monopoly of one side.

So it is that the Public Theatre's production of Julius Caesar - that's the one in which Caesar is a Trump lookalike who gets group-stabbed in a protracted death scene - was disrupted by right-wing protesters doing exactly what the left does: shutting down anything they don't like.

Meanwhile, we have the latest daily horror from London, a city the late Alan Jay Lerner, author of My Fair Lady, chose to emigrate to because, he told me, it was "the most civilized place on earth". On Sunday at midnight, a non-Muslim man drove a vehicle into a crowd of Muslims leaving the Finsbury Park mosque in what appears to be an attempt to reenact the London Bridge attack: same time (late at night), same weapon (white van), but this time targeting nocturnal believers rather than nocturnal hedonists. It is not perfectly symmetrical: Mayor Sadiq Khan is apparently being more circumspect about issuing his usual reassurance that being run over by white vans is just a part of daily life in a great "global city".

[Chuckster]

for later