Sowell did say that the media were trying to keep the lid on a burgeoning race war. The lid cannot be kept on forever, and the media are abrogating their responsibility to the public and to the peace. Never mind the authorities . . .
No, they aren't. They're slanting their news coverage to fit their political agenda--as with the recent union violence in Michigan, which only Fox News covered.
I wonder what would happen if someone DID organize a counter-mob, set up this gang, and took matters into their own hand. Imagine 20 guys with radios; they get on 3 or 4 to a car on a 6-car train, and just ride through these parts.
Eventually, the mob comes onto a train. The problem is that metro trains don’t have inter-car access. But that’s OK. They just GO ALONG with the mob, except they have informed the others when the mob arrived, so now they are all ready.
When the train reaches the next station, and the mob gets off, so do all 20 of the counter-mob. They surround the mob and wait for the police; since the mob will be holding stolen property, they should be able to arrest them.
Of course, the mob will probably fight back. If our counter-mob has good martial-arts training, the 20 should be able to subdue the 14. It could be messy, there might be weapons involved. People will get hurt.
But until these small mobs sense that they could face repercussions, they will just get bolder.
We know this for a fact — we see it on TV every time a mob gets big enough to think they are “too big to get arrested” — then they start turning over cars, trashing stores, stealing things, beating people up.
The threat of reprisal is all that is keeping too many of our fellow humans from becoming thugs. We need to keep that threat real.