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Today is the sixth day since George Floyd was murdered by a cop. We've had five days of rioting. Some of the protestors are legitimate. They are exercising their right to assemble and the right of free speech. They understandably are frustrated by the inequality of treatment between black and white people. No one sees that better than I, every time I visit my "cloistered brothers." There are more black people in jail than white. Why?
But then there are anarchists in the crowd that just want to cause trouble. They work up the crowd to smash and destroy.
Also among the people are opportunists. They rob stores and steal people's possessions. This happened last night in Boston. While the police were busy policing the crowd at City Plaza, the bad guys lined their cars in front of the stores on Newbury Street and their accomplices ran in and broke into the stores and grabbed what they could, hopped into the waiting cars and took off. Some thieves even had shopping carts and filled them up and took off pushing their shopping cards overloaded with stolen goods.
Leo Tolstoi said:
There are two methods of human activity--and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: one use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.
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