Plaques on the Wall in London

American Thinker.com ^ | June 18, 2020 | Michael Curtis

[Kaslin]

The great philosopher Casey Stengel once asked the question, can't anybody here play this game? The game of politics and historical judgment is more difficult to play than baseball, with no single goal, no sense of final victory or measure of achievement.

The protests stemming from the death of George Floyd continue, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement are occurring internationally as well as in the U.S. The size, the increasing number, and the manner of foreign protests ostensibly against racism and police brutality have been surprising. Most have been peaceful, but a minority have been disorderly and at times destructive. Who would have imagined that an event in Minneapolis would lead to the beheading of the statue of King Leopold II of Belgium in Brussels or the attempt to deface Winston Churchill in London? In all countries, the dilemma remains of how and if history and prominent figures of the past should be venerated if some part of the population finds them objectionable.

We know of the problem from a well known authority in meddling in American affairs. President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2020 spoke of the "deep internal crisis" in the U.S. Russia, he said, and earlier the Soviet Union, had sympathy for the fight of African-Americans for their natural rights. But, he continued, when protests turn into mayhem and pogroms, he sees nothing good for the U.S.

How to judge whether individuals should remain honored or erased with historical cleansing? Three initial problems are immediately evident. One is that the failings of individuals are usually not central to why they are honored; a second is that no individual is without faults; a third is the historical context of the actions or behavior of individuals.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The Chinks are behind it, I'm convinced. These don't look anything like spontaneous protests, although obviously the rioters are playing the locals like fiddles. There are just too many middle-class white people in the crowds.

Rich liberals, like Soros, are simply middlemen for the Chinks, who not only have the resources to sustain this sort of thing, but have every reason for wanting to do it.

[Vaduz]

Black Lives Matter movement
The young and dumb and slow thinkers are always ready to join a cult of their like minded shallow thinking and fail to understand all this is a political movement .
The left has ran out of logic long a go all they have left is the media and they are in deep fail mode.

[dfwgator]

That’s why they’re called “Useful Idiots”

[livius]

The International left is behind it but China is their ideal society and China would be all to happy to extend its “model of governance” to the US.

Don’t forget that Fauci said we had to model our response to the virus on the Chinese approach: lock down entire cities and imprison your people. And we did.